Quote #10
A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
More from Jose Marti
- Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ …
- Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.
- A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men.
- Others go to bed with their mistresses; I with my ideas.
- Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
- Man needs to go outside himself in order to find repose and reveal himself.
- Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
- Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.