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
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason , and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light .
Literature is the most beautiful of countries
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.
Talent is a gift that brings with it an obligation to serve the world, and not ourselves, for it is not of our making.
To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly.
One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.
Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit.
Charm is a product of the unexpected.
No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop
Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.
A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
The nation that buys commands, the nation that sells serves; it is necessary to balance trade in order to ensure freedom; the country that wants to die sells only to one country , and the country that wants to survive sells to more than one.
In truth, men speak too much of danger.