Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado, in full Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 July 1875
CitySeville, Spain
CountrySpain
believe reality philosopher
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
garden done petals
What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
light understanding doe
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
philosophy lying believe
My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
being-yourself being-single men
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
wisdom way walking
There is no way; we make the road by walking it.
marriage dream hands
Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.
teaching learning path
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
patience running trying
Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
hay als path
Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)
philosophical denial deny
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
erotic traffic sensibility
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.
littles vices add
The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
running community atheism
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.