César Vallejo's most famous lines
The top 3 according to 201 votes from people: There are blows in life, so hard… I don't know! · They are few, but they are… They open dark furrows / in the fiercest face and the strongest back. · I was born on a day / when God was sick, / gravely.. (Updated Nov 6, 2022.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Español). See the original
Top 10
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There are blows in life, so hard… I don't know!
Poem "The Black Heralds", from The Black Heralds (1918).
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They are few, but they are… They open dark furrows / in the fiercest face and the strongest back.
Poem "The Black Heralds", from The Black Heralds (1918).
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I was born on a day / when God was sick, / gravely.
Poem "Espergesia", from The Black Heralds (1918).
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4
César Vallejo is dead; they all beat him / though he did nothing to them.
Poem "Black Stone on a White Stone", from Human Poems (1939).
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At the end of the battle, / the fighter dead, a man came to him / and said: "Don't die, I love you so much!"
Poem "Mass", from Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).
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I will die in Paris in a downpour, / on a day I already remember.
Poem "Black Stone on a White Stone", from Human Poems (1939).
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I will die in Paris, and I won't run away, / perhaps on a Thursday, like today, in autumn.
Poem "Black Stone on a White Stone", from Human Poems (1939).
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Children of the world, / if Spain falls, I mean, it's just a thought…
Poem "Spain, Take This Cup from Me", from Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).
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Then all the people of the earth / surrounded him; […] / he embraced the first man and began to walk…
Poem "Mass", from Spain, Take This Cup from Me (1939).
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10
I have snowed so much so that you may sleep.
Epitaph on his grave in Montparnasse, Paris.
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«Hay golpes en la vida, tan fuertes... ¡Yo no sé!» lo aprendí en el colegio en Trujillo y me lo sé hasta hoy. Masa es de los poemas más bonitos que se han escrito.