Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado, in full Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth26 July 1875
CitySeville, Spain
CountrySpain
erotic traffic sensibility
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.
running dream sleep
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
hay als path
Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)
philosophical denial deny
Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
patience running trying
Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
philosophy lying believe
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.
wisdom way walking
There is no way; we make the road by walking it.
being-yourself being-single men
Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
garden done petals
What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
sea feet stopping
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.
change personality world
There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
answers wheels break
At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
teaching learning path
Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk
views your-side half
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.