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Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

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Jose Marti
Age: 42 †
Born: 1853
Born: January 28
Died: 1895
Died: May 19
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Day and night I always dream with open eyes. - José Martí
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Culture, which makes talent shine, is not completely ours either, nor can we place it solely at our disposal. Rather, it belongs mainly to our country, which gave it to us, and to humanity, from which we receive it as a birthright.
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To Educate is to Free.
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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
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To educate is to give man the keys to the world, which are independence and love, and to give him strength to journey on his own, light of step, a spontaneous and free being.
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The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.
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Strength comes from waiting.
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But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
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Let those who desire a secure homeland conquer it. Let those who do not conquer it live under the whip and in exile, watched over like wild animals, cast from one country to another, concealing the death of their souls with a beggar's smile from the scorn of free men.
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Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
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Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.
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Freedoms, like privileges, prevail or are imperiled together You cannot harm or strive to achieve one without harming or furthering all.
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The wretch who lives without freedom feels like dressing in the mud from the streets Those who have you, o Liberty, do not know. you. Those who do not have you should not speak of you, but win you.
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Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.
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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
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No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
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The first duty of a man is to think for himself
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One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
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The brave forget. It is those who fought less bravely, or those who fought without justice and live in fear of their victory, who forget the least.
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