Jose Marti
Jose Marti
José Julián Martí Pérezis a Cuban national hero and an important figure in Latin American literature. In his short life, he was a poet, an essayist, a journalist, a revolutionary philosopher, a translator, a professor, a publisher, a Freemason, a political theorist, and supporter of Henry George's economic reforms known as Georgism. Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol for Cuba's bid for independence against Spain in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth28 January 1853
CountryCuba
A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity.
Love is the bond between men, the way to teach and the center of the world.
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.
One just principle from the depths of a cave is more powerful than an army.
To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
Literature is the most beautiful of countries
Fortunately, there is a sane equilibrium in the character of nations, as there is in that of men.
It is terrible to speak of you, Liberty, for one who lives without you.
Mountains culminate in peaks, and nations in men.
My poems are like a dagger Sprouting flowers from the hilt; My poetry is like a fountain Sprinkling streams of coral water.
Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice. If they knew its charms, the dignity that accompanies it, how much a free man feels like a king, the perpetual inner light that is produced by decorous self-awareness and realization, perhaps there would be no greater friends of freedom than those who are its worst enemies.