Selected Writings
A source page for quotes linked to Jose Marti.
“Indeed, people never truly forgive those they've once been forced to admire.”
“Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.”
“No fruit on earth can rival the cemetery's crop”
“Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.”
“Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.”
“This is the age in which hills can look down upon the mountains.”
“I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.”
“In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.”
“A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots.”
“Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.”
“He who uses the office he owes to the voters wrongfully and against them is a thief.”
“The struggles waged by nations are weak only when they lack support in the hearts of their women.”
“Perhaps the enemies of liberty are such only because they judge it by its loud voice.”