Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderon
Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Barreda González de Henao Ruiz de Blasco y Riaño, usually referred as Pedro Calderón de la Barca, was a dramatist, poet and writer of the Spanish Golden Age. During certain periods of his life he was also a soldier and a Roman Catholic priest. Born when the Spanish Golden Age theatre was being defined by Lope de Vega, he developed it further, his work being regarded as the culmination of the Spanish Baroque theatre...
heartbreak morning flower
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, sleeping in the cold night's arms.
dream what-matters awakening
But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
dream deeds good-deeds
For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.
heart world knowledge-of-the-world
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
men birth crime
For man's greatest crime is to have been born.
dream passion men
Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confess An unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akin In missing each that salutory rein Of reason, and the grinding will of man.
nice men self
No windows give a better view than those a man brings with him in his head, not asking for tickets of admission, since at all functions, festivals, or feasts he looks out with the same nice self-composure.
light sunflower enchanted
Light-enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendour.
lying color perspective
In this treacherous world Nothing is the truth nor a lie. Everything depends on the color Of the crystal through which one sees it
dream doing-good
Even in dreams doing good is not wasted.
love relationship romantic
When love is not madness, it is not love.
moving sunflower restless
Restless sunflower; cease to move.
love life dream
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
nature color green-world
Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.