Quotes from Antonio Machado

Hoy es siempre todavía.

Look for your other half Who walks along next to you, And tends to be what you aren't.

Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

Españolito que vienes al mundo te guarde Dios. Una de las dos Españas ha de helarte el corazón.

This Narcissus of ours Can't see his face in the mirror Because he has become the mirror.

Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace "Camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.

But don't hunt for dissonance: There is no such thing; People dance to all tunes.

No my soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its clear eyes open, far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

Mataron a Federico cuando la luz asomaba. / El pelotón de verdugos no osó mirarle la casra. / Todos cerraron los ojos; / rezaron: ¡ni Dios te salva! / Muerto cayó Federico / -sangre en la frente y plomo en las entrañas- / Que fue en Granada el crimen / sabed -¡pobre Granada-, en su Granada

And when the day arrives for the final voyage and the ship of no return is set to sail, you'll find me aboard, traveling light, almost naked, like the children of the sea.

Nunca perseguí la gloria ni dejar en la memoria de los hombres mi canción; yo amo los mundos sutiles, ingrávidos y gentiles como pompas de jabón. Me gusta verlos pintarse de sol y grana, volar bajo el cielo azul, temblar súbitamente y quebrarse.

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

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.

And to walk through life in dreams out of love for the hand that guides us.

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant