María Zambrano's most profound quotes
The top 3 according to 48 votes from people: I have never been left without a homeland; my homeland is the language. · Power tends to be taciturn. · Writing is defending the solitude I live in.. (Updated Apr 23, 2021.)
"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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Top 13
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I have never been left without a homeland; my homeland is the language.
Quoted in José María Albaigès, Un siglo de citas (1997), p. 165.
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2
Power tends to be taciturn.
Clearings in the Forest (1977).
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Writing is defending the solitude I live in.
Quoted in Eduardo Palomo, Cita-logía (2013), p. 32.
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Asking is philosophical; finding is poetic.
Quoted by Antonio Varo Baena in María Zambrano, la poesía de la razón.
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5
To love is to see oneself as another being sees us.
Quoted in Eduardo Palomo, Cita-logía (2013), p. 32.
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Man is a being hidden within himself.
Clearings in the Forest (1977).
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Only in solitude does one feel the thirst for truth.
Quoted in Eduardo Palomo, Cita-logía (2013), p. 32.
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A philosopher is someone who no longer complains.
"Letter on Exile" (1961).
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There are, no doubt, forgotten cults to unknown deities that live obscurely under other names.
Philosophy and Poetry (1939).
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Art seems to be the effort to decipher or follow the trace left by a lost form of existence.
"Notes on Time and Poetry".
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Spain, our time, our duty: to know it, to fulfil it.
Delirium and Destiny (1989), p. 46.
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The heart is the centre, because it is the only part of our being that makes a sound.
Quoted in José María Albaigès, Un siglo de citas (1997), p. 448.
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13
One does politics whenever one thinks about steering life.
Horizon of Liberalism (1930), p. 13.
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