Gloria Fuertes' most famous quotes and lines
The top 3 according to 291 votes from people: A child with a book of poetry in their hands will never hold a weapon in them as an adult. · Before counting syllables, poets have to tell what is going on. · It costs dearly, gentlemen, to be a poet.. (Updated Aug 15, 2019.)
"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.
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Top 12
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A child with a book of poetry in their hands will never hold a weapon in them as an adult.
Motto of the Gloria Fuertes Foundation.
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Before counting syllables, poets have to tell what is going on.
Collected on the Cervantes Virtual Center's Gloria Fuertes portal.
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It costs dearly, gentlemen, to be a poet.
From the poem "Sale caro ser poeta".
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I write badly on purpose so that it reaches you well.
Quoted in El País.
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The best part of the journey is not the finish line, it is the landscape.
From the poem "Si no te vale de todo".
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Madrid is not my land, it is my cement.
Interview in El País (1994).
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You can create abstract painting, sculpture and music, but a house, a love and a poem cannot be abstract.
Collected in "Un siglo de citas" by Albaigès (1997).
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I write verses, gentlemen... but I do not like being called a poetess. I like wine the way bricklayers do...
Collected in "100 años de Gloria Fuertes" (2017).
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I dedicated my book to a one-year-old girl, and she liked it so much she ate it.
Collected on the Cervantes Virtual Center's Gloria Fuertes portal.
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The fox of anguish came last night, unwell... And how can I throw it out if it came to me pregnant with hope?
How to Tie the Tiger's Whiskers (1969).
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I started writing poems when I discovered you could love someone who was not your family.
El libro de Gloria Fuertes (2017).
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It is hard to correct mistakes in glass, watercolour and love.
Quoted in "Vida y poesía de Gloria Fuertes" by José Luis Cano.
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Comments (1)
Crecí con Un globo, dos globos, tres globos y no supe hasta mayor la poeta enorme que era. Lo de «Madrid no es mi tierra, es mi cemento» es buenísimo.