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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
Antonio Machado
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Antonio Machado
Age: 63 †
Born: 1875
Born: July 26
Died: 1939
Died: February 22
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Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz
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Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.
Antonio Machado
Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
Antonio Machado
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
Antonio Machado
There is no way we make the road by walking it.
Antonio Machado
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
Antonio Machado
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
Antonio Machado
All our efforts must tend towards light.
Antonio Machado
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
Antonio Machado
Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .
Antonio Machado
It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for.
Antonio Machado
There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.
Antonio Machado
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
Antonio Machado
Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
Antonio Machado
Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
Antonio Machado
Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
Antonio Machado
The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
Antonio Machado
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
Antonio Machado
Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk
Antonio Machado
And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.
Antonio Machado
Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
Antonio Machado
