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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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It is my duty to prevent, through the independence of Cuba, the U.S.A. from spreading over the West Indies and falling with addedweight upon other lands of Our America. All I have done up to now and shall do hereafter is to that end.... I know the Monster, because I have lived in its lair--and my weapon is only the slingshot of David.
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Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
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Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy life is secure for those who obey the law of work.
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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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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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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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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 first duty of a man is to think for himself
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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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Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.
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Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
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To beautify life is to give it an object.
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Strength comes from waiting.
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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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Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.
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Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in 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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All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
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Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.
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Oh, what company good poets are!
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