Quotes from Jose Marti

Mucho, señora, daría Por tender sobre tu espalda Tu cabellera bravía, Tu cabellera de gualda: Despacio la tendería, Callado la besaría. Por sobre la oreja fina Baja lujoso el cabello, Lo mismo que una cortina Que se levanta hacia el cuello. La oreja es obra divina De porcelana de China. Mucho, señora, te diera Por desenredar el nudo De tu roja cabellera Sobre tu cuello desnudo: Muy despacio la esparciera, Hilo por hilo la abriera

Day and night I always dream with open eyes.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Todo es hermoso y constante, Todo es música y razón, Y todo, como el diamante, Antes que luz es carbón.

Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

The truthe wakes up once and never dies.

Vivi dentro del monstro y conozco sus entranas

Los Pueblos tienen los Gobiernos que se merecen.

In this world, there must be a certain degree of honor just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many men without honor, there will always be some others who bear in themselves the honor of many men.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Yo he visto en la noche oscura llover sobre mi cabeza los rayos de lumbra pura de la divina belleza.

Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat . . . between the law of love and the law of hate.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

The vote is a trust more delicate than any other, for it involves not just the interests of the voter, but his life, honor and future as well.

Peoples are made of hate and of love, and more of hate than love.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.