Quote #7
Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests.
More from Jose Marti
- Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them. Griefs purify and prepare him.
- A nation is not a complex of wheels, nor a wild horse race, but a stride upward concerted by real men.
- To beautify life is to give it an object.
- Men are products, expressions, reflections; they live to the extent that they coincide with their epoch, or to the extent that they differ …
- A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.
- A grain of poetry suffices to season a century.
- Oh, what company good poets are!
- Hatred, slavery's inevitable aftermath.