# María Zambrano's most profound quotes

"My homeland is the language", "Writing is defending the solitude I live in" and "Asking is philosophical; finding is poetic": the most quoted lines of Spanish philosopher María Zambrano, from Clearings in the Forest, Philosophy and Poetry and Delirium and Destiny, with the source of each.

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- Apr 23, 2021 · Adrián
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## Top 13

1. **I have never been left without a homeland; my homeland is the language.** (6 · ▲6 ▼0) — Quoted in José María Albaigès, Un siglo de citas (1997), p. 165.
2. **Power tends to be taciturn.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — Clearings in the Forest (1977).
3. **Writing is defending the solitude I live in.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Quoted in Eduardo Palomo, Cita-logía (2013), p. 32.
4. **Asking is philosophical; finding is poetic.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Quoted by Antonio Varo Baena in María Zambrano, la poesía de la razón.
5. **To love is to see oneself as another being sees us.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Quoted in Eduardo Palomo, Cita-logía (2013), p. 32.
6. **Man is a being hidden within himself.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Clearings in the Forest (1977).
7. **Only in solitude does one feel the thirst for truth.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Quoted in Eduardo Palomo, Cita-logía (2013), p. 32.
8. **A philosopher is someone who no longer complains.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — "Letter on Exile" (1961).
9. **There are, no doubt, forgotten cults to unknown deities that live obscurely under other names.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Philosophy and Poetry (1939).
10. **Art seems to be the effort to decipher or follow the trace left by a lost form of existence.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — "Notes on Time and Poetry".
11. **Spain, our time, our duty: to know it, to fulfil it.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Delirium and Destiny (1989), p. 46.
12. **The heart is the centre, because it is the only part of our being that makes a sound.** (2 · ▲3 ▼1) — Quoted in José María Albaigès, Un siglo de citas (1997), p. 448.
13. **One does politics whenever one thinks about steering life.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Horizon of Liberalism (1930), p. 13.

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