Espada Quotes & Sayings

I feel like we need to be aware of the ways we use and misuse religious dogma: whether it takes us deeper into love and inclusion or it separates us. — Sue Monk Kidd

Advice to Young Poets
Never pretend
to be a unicorn
by sticking a plunger on your head. — Martin Espada

Love asks for nothing. Only personalities want something. — Byron Katie

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone. — Eric Garner

The worst way to miss somebody, is when they're right beside you and you miss them anyway - I am number 4 — Pittacus Lore

The greatest people that ever lived were also the greatest failures. They just didn't let those failures affect them like they do most. — Michael Jordan

Even the most political poem is an act of faith. — Martin Espada

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor. — Robert A. Heinlein

[I]f we could imagine a world without slavery and abolish that institution, then we can face the troubles we have now ... Who was it that imagined a world where the Nazis could be defeated?There were those who looked upon that war machine and said: this can and must be destroyed.That resistance ... began with an act of the imagination. Resistance begins with the imagination. — Tony Leuzzi

Knowledge, do you say it is power? yes most mighty of all powers. — Plato

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes. — David Luiz

A poem is not a pop-tart. — Martin Espada

As a biographer, I try to uncover the adventures and personalities behind each character I research. Once my character and I have reached an understanding, then I begin the detective work reading old books, old letters, old newspapers, and visiting the places where my subject lived. Often I turn up surprises, and of course, I pass them on. — Jean Fritz