Poetry Quote by Antonio Machado — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.”

“Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea.”

“At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.”

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper,”

“THE”

“நின்னை சரணடைந்தேன், கண்ணம்மா”

“Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.”

“Când ne deschidem”