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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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Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.
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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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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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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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Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
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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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Nature has placed the need to see justice done in some souls, and the need to flout and affront it in others.
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
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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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Many houses were still full of light when, at the close of March 22, the people of the Círculo returned to their homes, which were gladdened with a fleeting gladness by an hour of justice - for there are still many slaves, black and white, in Puerto Rico!
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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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We are free, but no to be evil
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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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Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
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Treacherous assassins, enemies of the people, and worthy of everyone's ridicule are those who, under the pretext of guiding future generations, teach them an isolated system of doctrines and whisper in their ear (instead of the sweet message of love) the barbarous gospel of hate.
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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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Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.
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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 force of passion is balanced by the force of interest.
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Day and night I always dream with open eyes. - José Martí
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