Canción de cuna y otros poemas
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“Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”
“Propaganda is a monologue that is not looking for an answer, but an echo.”
“Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one”
“Cathedrals, luxury liners laden with souls, Holding to the east their hulls of stone.”
“A man is a form of life that dreams in order to act and acts in order to dream.”
“Without communication with the dead, a fully human life is not possible.”
“It's better to say, 'I'm suffering,' than to say, 'This landscape is ugly.”
Source: For the Time Being: A Christmas Oratorio
“Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.”
“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”
“By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.”
“We were put on this Earth to help others. Why others were put here is beyond me.”
“To be happy means to be free, not from pain or fear, but from care or anxiety.”
“Had Greek civilization never existed ... we would never have become fully conscious.”