Antonio Machado's most famous lines
The top 3 according to 5 votes from people: Traveller, there is no road, / the road is made by walking. · Everything passes and everything stays, / but ours is to pass, / to pass making roads, / roads over the sea. · My childhood is memories of a patio in Seville / and a bright orchard where the lemon tree ripens.. (Updated Apr 30, 2020.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 12
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Traveller, there is no road, / the road is made by walking.
«Proverbs and Songs» XXIX, in Campos de Castilla (1912); Serrat made it a song in 1969.
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Everything passes and everything stays, / but ours is to pass, / to pass making roads, / roads over the sea.
«Proverbs and Songs» XLIV, in Campos de Castilla (1912).
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My childhood is memories of a patio in Seville / and a bright orchard where the lemon tree ripens.
«Portrait», the poem that opens Campos de Castilla (1912).
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Today is always still.
«Proverbs and Songs», in Nuevas canciones (1924).
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There's already a Spaniard who wants / to live and is starting to live, / between a Spain that is dying / and…
«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).
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Little Spaniard coming / into the world, may God keep you. / One of the two Spains / will freeze your heart.
«Proverbs and Songs» LIII, in Campos de Castilla (1912), the prophecy of the two Spains.
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And when the day of the last journey comes… / you will find me on board, travelling light, / almost naked, like the…
«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).
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These blue days and this sun of childhood.
The last line he wrote, found in his coat pocket in Collioure in 1939.
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The truth is the truth, whether Agamemnon or his swineherd says it.
The opening of Juan de Mairena (1936). —Agamemnon: Agreed. —The swineherd: I'm not convinced.
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Lord, you have torn from me what I loved most.
Campos de Castilla (1917), after the death of his wife, Leonor, in Soria.
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To have a dialogue, first ask; then… listen.
Juan de Mairena (1936).
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12
Fields of Soria, / where the rocks seem to dream.
«Fields of Soria», in Campos de Castilla (1912).
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Comments (3)
«Mi infancia son recuerdos de un patio de Sevilla», qué arranque.
Lo de las dos Españas sigue doliendo.
«Caminante, no hay camino» y Serrat cantándolo, imposible no emocionarse.