The most famous lines from Martín Fierro
The top 3 according to 143 votes from people: Here I start to sing to the beat of my guitar, for the man kept awake by an extraordinary sorrow, like the lonely bird, finds comfort in singing. · Let brothers be united, for that is the first law… for if they fight among themselves, outsiders will devour them. · My glory is to live as free as the bird in the sky; I build no nest on this ground where there is so much to suffer.. (Updated Dec 2, 2020.)
'Here I start to sing', 'let brothers be united' and old Vizcacha's advice: the lines from José Hernández's poem (1872 and 1879) that Argentines know by heart, with their canto, checked against the text.
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Top 13
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Here I start to sing to the beat of my guitar, for the man kept awake by an extraordinary sorrow, like the lonely bird, finds comfort in singing.
The Gaucho Martín Fierro, canto I: the poem's opening.
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Let brothers be united, for that is the first law… for if they fight among themselves, outsiders will devour them.
The Return of Martín Fierro, canto XXXII: Fierro's advice to his sons.
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My glory is to live as free as the bird in the sky; I build no nest on this ground where there is so much to suffer.
The Gaucho Martín Fierro, canto I.
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And let all who hear the tale of my sorrows know that I never fight or kill except when I must.
The Gaucho Martín Fierro, canto I.
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5
Opportunity is like iron: you must strike it while it's hot.
The Return of Martín Fierro, canto XXXII.
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6
I'm a bull in my own herd and a great bull in anyone else's.
The Gaucho Martín Fierro, canto I.
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7
The devil knows a lot for being the devil, but more for being old.
Old Vizcacha, The Return of Martín Fierro, canto XV.
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Know that forgetting the bad is also having a memory.
The Return of Martín Fierro, canto XXXIII.
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9
Make friends with the judge; don't give him cause to complain.
Old Vizcacha, The Return of Martín Fierro, canto XV.
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10
The gaucho has to endure until the grave swallows him.
The Gaucho Martín Fierro, canto XII.
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11
A cow that changes pasture is late to calve.
Old Vizcacha, The Return of Martín Fierro, canto XV.
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12
A man must be brave if he decides to roam.
The Return of Martín Fierro, canto III.
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13
Man is born with the cunning that is to be his guide.
The Return of Martín Fierro, canto XXXII.
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