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...
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.
greatest loss pain
'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
dreams life quotes themselves
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
dream sleep night
And yet, and yet, in these our ghostly lives, Half night, half day, half sleeping, half awake, How if our waking life, like that of sleep, Be all a dream in that eternal life To which we wake not till we sleep in death
fall air secret
Never confide your secrets to paper; it is like throwing a stone in the air; and if you know who throws the stone, you do not know where it may fall.
dream life-is life-is-a-dream
All life is a dream, and all dreams are dreams.
sweet law bird
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish, a beast, a bird?