# Antonio Machado's most famous lines

The verses by Machado (Seville, 1875 - Collioure, 1939) that are part of Spain's collective memory, from Campos de Castilla to Juan de Mairena, each with its book.

- 5 votes · 12 items
- Apr 30, 2020 · la_maraton
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## Top 12

1. **Traveller, there is no road, / the road is made by walking.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — «Proverbs and Songs» XXIX, in Campos de Castilla (1912); Serrat made it a song in 1969.
2. **Everything passes and everything stays, / but ours is to pass, / to pass making roads, / roads over the sea.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — «Proverbs and Songs» XLIV, in Campos de Castilla (1912).
3. **My childhood is memories of a patio in Seville / and a bright orchard where the lemon tree ripens.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — «Portrait», the poem that opens Campos de Castilla (1912).
4. **Today is always still.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — «Proverbs and Songs», in Nuevas canciones (1924).
5. **There's already a Spaniard who wants / to live and is starting to live, / between a Spain that is dying / and…** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — «There's already a Spaniard who wants / to live and is starting to live, / between a Spain that is dying / and another Spain that yawns.» «Proverbs and Songs» LIII, in Campos de Castilla (1912).
6. **Little Spaniard coming / into the world, may God keep you. / One of the two Spains / will freeze your heart.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — «Proverbs and Songs» LIII, in Campos de Castilla (1912), the prophecy of the two Spains.
7. **And when the day of the last journey comes… / you will find me on board, travelling light, / almost naked, like the…** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — «And when the day of the last journey comes… / you will find me on board, travelling light, / almost naked, like the children of the sea.» The end of «Portrait», in Campos de Castilla (1912).
8. **These blue days and this sun of childhood.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The last line he wrote, found in his coat pocket in Collioure in 1939.
9. **The truth is the truth, whether Agamemnon or his swineherd says it.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The opening of Juan de Mairena (1936). —Agamemnon: Agreed. —The swineherd: I'm not convinced.
10. **Lord, you have torn from me what I loved most.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Campos de Castilla (1917), after the death of his wife, Leonor, in Soria.
11. **To have a dialogue, first ask; then… listen.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Juan de Mairena (1936).
12. **Fields of Soria, / where the rocks seem to dream.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — «Fields of Soria», in Campos de Castilla (1912).

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