Quotes from Julia de Burgos

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

We come from not being and march toward not being:nothing between two nothings, zero between two zeros,and since between two nothings nothing can be,let's drink to the splendor of not being our bodies.

Yo, fatalista, mirando la vida llegándose y alejándose de mis semejantes. Yo, dentro de mí misma, siempre en espera de algo que no acierta mi mente. Me, fatalist, watching life coming and going from my contemporaries. Me, inside myself, always waiting for something that my mind can't define. ("Momentos/Moments")

A cada paso adelantado en mi ruta hacia el frente rasgaba mis espaldas el aleteo desesperado de los troncos viejos. At each advancing step on my route forward back was ripped by the desperate flapping wings of the old guard. (From "Yo misma fui mi ruta/I was my own route")