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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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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect.
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I come from all places and to all places I go: I am art among the arts and mountain among mountains. I know the strange names of flowers and herbs and of fatal deceptions and magnificent griefs. In night's darkness I've seen raining down on my head pure flames, flashing rays of beauty divine.
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A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.
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The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.
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I know that when the world surrenders, pallid, to repose, the murmur of a tranquil stream through the deep silence flows.
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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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We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.
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He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.
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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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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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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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Only those who hate the Negro see hatred in the Negro.
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Others go to bed with their mistresses I with my ideas.
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All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
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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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To Educate is to Free.
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No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
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Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.
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