フアン・アントニオ・ビジャカーニャス

Quotes

• “The earth is brief,as brief as a man’s solemnity.………When you, Earth, stop palpitating in my fleshI, flesh, will give you all my earth.”
• “Death is a life of questionsthat are being buried,and one ends alwayswith doubt tangled in the lips.”
• “God borders my incredulityconstantly.And my incredulity is so much God, that I am almost sureto adore Him.”
• “I have an immensity which shivers in the oceans,being, as I am, only a little fountain, small as an eye.”
• “I come to make song, after the tears.And even if a choir of mensprayed my tongue with silence,poetry will come, with liberating voice,to make my song fall from the treesand reach the most deeply buried abysses of those tearsthat the child lent me when crying himself into life.Because my infant songis stronger than man’s tears,and it could even conquer merobbing the need of tears from the sun and the wind.”
• “If pain does not diewe shall make it poetry.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Wikidata facts

Image

VillacanasToledo.jpg

via Wikidata · CC0