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Juan Antonio Villacañas
7 quotes
“The earth is brief, as brief as a man’s solemnity. ……… When you, Earth, stop palpitating in my flesh I, flesh, will give you all my earth.”
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Earth and I”, from De-triumphant March (1960)
“Death is a life of questions that are being buried, and one ends always with doubt tangled in the lips.”
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) first seen 1960 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Epilogue”, from De-triumphant March (1960)
“God borders my incredulity constantly. And my incredulity is so much God, that I am almost sure to adore Him.”
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Revolt of a Newborn”, from Revolt of a Newborn (1973)
“I have an immensity which shivers in the oceans, being, as I am, only a little fountain, small as an eye.”
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fountain”, from Revolt of a Newborn (1973)
“I come to make song, after the tears. And even if a choir of men sprayed my tongue with silence, poetry will come, with liberating voice, to make my song fall from the trees and reach the most deeply buried abysses of those tears that the child lent me when crying himself into life.Because my infant song is stronger than man’s tears, and it could even conquer me robbing the need of tears from the sun and the wind.”
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) first seen 1973 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: New Songs for After the Tears", from Revolt of a Newborn (1973)
“If pain does not die we shall make it poetry.”
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From Sublimation of Disobedience (1998)
“Thought is a flower from other worlds, a tale that is torn in each written word. ……………I go outdoors to give rest to the soul’s tired muscles.”
Juan Antonio Villacañas (1922–2001) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Literaturaliae”, from Theme of My Biography (2000)