Antonio Machado Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Antonio Machado
Like an abandoned dog who cannot find
a smell or a track and roams
along the roads, with no road, like
the child who in a night of the fair
gets lost among the crowd,
and the air is dusty, and the candles
fluttering,
astounded, his heart
weighed down by music and by pain;
that's how I am, drunk, sad by nature,
a mad and lunar guitarist, a poet,
and an ordinary man lost in dreams,
searching constantly for God among the mists. — Antonio Machado
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. — Antonio Machado
Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant. — Antonio Machado
When the I AM THAT I AM made nothing
And rested, which rest it certainly deserved,
Night now accompanied day, and man
Had his friend in the absence of the woman. — Antonio Machado
Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand. — Antonio Machado
This Narcissus of ours
Can't see his face in the mirror
Because he has become the mirror. — Antonio Machado
The wind, one brilliant day, called
to my soul with an odor of jasmine.
"In return for the odor of my jasmine,
I'd like all the odor of your roses."
"I have no roses; all the flowers
in my garden are dead."
"Well then, I'll take the withered petals
and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain."
the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself:
"What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you? — Antonio Machado
Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea. — Antonio Machado
I.
Don't trace out your profile
forget your side view
all that is outer stuff.
II.
Look for your other half
who walks always next to you
and tends to be who you aren't. — Antonio Machado
I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup. — Antonio Machado
My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence. — Antonio Machado
There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector. — Antonio Machado
While the burning fish is tracing his arc
near the cypress, beneath the highest blue of all,
and the blind boy flies away in the white stone,
and the ivory poem of the green cicada
beats and reverberates in the elm,
let us give honor to the Lord
the black mark of his good hand
who has arranged for silence in all this noise.
Honor to the god of distance and of absence,
ff the anchor in the sea - the open sea ...
He frees us from the world - it's everywhere
he opens roads for us to walk on.
With our cup of darkness filled to the brim,
with our heart that always knows some hunger,
let us give honor to the Lord who created the zero
and carved our thought out of the block of faith. — Antonio Machado
The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems. — Antonio Machado
Only a fool thinks price and value are the same. — Antonio Machado
Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't. — Antonio Machado
At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers. — Antonio Machado
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. — Antonio Machado
XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea. — Antonio Machado
Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it. — Antonio Machado
All our efforts must tend towards light. — Antonio Machado
There is no way; we make the road by walking it. — Antonio Machado
The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being. — Antonio Machado
Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't. — Antonio Machado
Has my heart gone to sleep?
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry,
scoops turning empty,
only shadow inside?
No, my heart is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
Not asleep, not dreaming
its eyes are opened wide
watching distant signals, listening
on the rim of vast silence — Antonio Machado
Your footsteps are the road, wanderer, and nothing else
there is no road, it is born of walking
and looking back, you gaze upon the path
to which you never shall return
there is no road, wanderer
only wakes upon the sea — Antonio Machado
By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path — Antonio Machado
Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us. — Antonio Machado
It is good knowing that glasses are to drink from;
the bad thing is not to know what thirst is for. — Antonio Machado
Mankind owns four things
That are no good at sea:
Rudder, anchor, oars,
And the fear of going down. — Antonio Machado
Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits — Antonio Machado
The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown. — Antonio Machado
Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human. — Antonio Machado
What the poet is searching for
is not the fundamental I
but the deep you. — Antonio Machado
No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced. — Antonio Machado
All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand — Antonio Machado
I've caught a glimpse of him in dreams:
expert hunter of himself,
every minute in ambush. — Antonio Machado
I thought my fireplace dead
and stirred the ashes.
I burned my fingers. — Antonio Machado
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. — Antonio Machado
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves. — Antonio Machado
Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true. — Antonio Machado
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. — Antonio Machado
I dreamt
marvellous error!
that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures. — Antonio Machado
Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man. — Antonio Machado
Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists. — Antonio Machado
Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace camino al andar.
(Walker, there is no road. The road is made as you walk.) — Antonio Machado
The deepest words
of the wise man teach us
the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows
or the sound of the water when it is flowing. — Antonio Machado
Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking. — Antonio Machado
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it. — Antonio Machado
Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart. — Antonio Machado
Dream-travelers, there is no path, paths are made by dreaming. — Antonio Machado
Pathmaker, there is no path;
You make the path by walking,
By walking you make the Path — Antonio Machado
Look for your other half
Who walks along next to you,
And tends to be what you aren't. — Antonio Machado
Traveler, there is no path, the path must be
forged as you walk. — Antonio Machado