# César Vallejo's most famous lines

From "There are blows in life, so hard... I don't know!" to "I will die in Paris in a downpour": the best-remembered lines by the Peruvian poet César Vallejo (1892–1938), from The Black Heralds, Trilce and the poems published after his death.

- 201 votes · 10 items
- Nov 6, 2022 · Camilo González
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## Top 10

1. **There are blows in life, so hard… I don't know!** (26 · ▲26 ▼0) — Poem "The Black Heralds", from The Black Heralds (1918).
2. **They are few, but they are… They open dark furrows / in the fiercest face and the strongest back.** (23 · ▲25 ▼2) — Poem "The Black Heralds", from The Black Heralds (1918).
3. **I was born on a day / when God was sick, / gravely.** (22 · ▲23 ▼1) — Poem "Espergesia", from The Black Heralds (1918).
4. **César Vallejo is dead; they all beat him / though he did nothing to them.** (17 · ▲18 ▼1) — Poem "Black Stone on a White Stone", from Human Poems (1939).
5. **At the end of the battle, / the fighter dead, a man came to him / and said: "Don't die, I love you so much!"** (15 · ▲18 ▼3) — Poem "Mass", from Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).
6. **I will die in Paris in a downpour, / on a day I already remember.** (14 · ▲16 ▼2) — Poem "Black Stone on a White Stone", from Human Poems (1939).
7. **I will die in Paris, and I won't run away, / perhaps on a Thursday, like today, in autumn.** (11 · ▲14 ▼3) — Poem "Black Stone on a White Stone", from Human Poems (1939).
8. **Children of the world, / if Spain falls, I mean, it's just a thought…** (11 · ▲11 ▼0) — Poem "Spain, Take This Cup from Me", from Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).
9. **Then all the people of the earth / surrounded him; \[…\] / he embraced the first man and began to walk…** (10 · ▲15 ▼5) — Poem "Mass", from Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).
10. **I have snowed so much so that you may sleep.** (10 · ▲14 ▼4) — Epitaph on his grave in Montparnasse, Paris.

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