# Gloria Fuertes' most famous quotes and lines

"A child with a book of poetry in their hands will never hold a weapon as an adult", "I write badly on purpose so that it reaches you well" and Madrid as her cement: the most quoted lines of Spanish poet Gloria Fuertes, with the poem or interview they come from.

- 291 votes · 12 items
- Aug 15, 2019 · Gerardo Vázquez
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## Top 12

1. **A child with a book of poetry in their hands will never hold a weapon in them as an adult.** (34 · ▲36 ▼2) — Motto of the Gloria Fuertes Foundation.
2. **Before counting syllables, poets have to tell what is going on.** (29 · ▲30 ▼1) — Collected on the Cervantes Virtual Center's Gloria Fuertes portal.
3. **It costs dearly, gentlemen, to be a poet.** (19 · ▲20 ▼1) — From the poem "Sale caro ser poeta".
4. **I write badly on purpose so that it reaches you well.** (18 · ▲24 ▼6) — Quoted in El País.
5. **The best part of the journey is not the finish line, it is the landscape.** (18 · ▲19 ▼1) — From the poem "Si no te vale de todo".
6. **Madrid is not my land, it is my cement.** (17 · ▲22 ▼5) — Interview in El País (1994).
7. **You can create abstract painting, sculpture and music, but a house, a love and a poem cannot be abstract.** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — Collected in "Un siglo de citas" by Albaigès (1997).
8. **I write verses, gentlemen... but I do not like being called a poetess. I like wine the way bricklayers do...** (13 · ▲18 ▼5) — Collected in "100 años de Gloria Fuertes" (2017).
9. **I dedicated my book to a one-year-old girl, and she liked it so much she ate it.** (11 · ▲18 ▼7) — Collected on the Cervantes Virtual Center's Gloria Fuertes portal.
10. **The fox of anguish came last night, unwell... And how can I throw it out if it came to me pregnant with hope?** (11 · ▲17 ▼6) — How to Tie the Tiger's Whiskers (1969).
11. **I started writing poems when I discovered you could love someone who was not your family.** (5 · ▲12 ▼7) — El libro de Gloria Fuertes (2017).
12. **It is hard to correct mistakes in glass, watercolour and love.** (5 · ▲10 ▼5) — Quoted in "Vida y poesía de Gloria Fuertes" by José Luis Cano.

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