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Don't you think, my friend, that there's many a lonely soul whose heart asks them for some barbarity, something from which they can burst?
- El Sepulcro de Don Quijote, Miguel de Unamuno
... and he slew windmills as though they were giants, halted for one brief second the inexorable wheel of progress, ever hungry for more.
for a moment, the knight of insanity achieved the impossible: he made us all sane again.
“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”
— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
"There are people who appear to think only with the brain, while others think with all the body and all the soul, with the blood, with the marrow of the bones, with the heart, with the lungs, with the belly, with the life."
—Miguel de Unamuno
[Poetic Outlaws]
You are consumed, my poor friend, by an incessant fever, a thirst for fathomless oceans without banks, a hunger for universes, and the homesickness of eternity.
- El Sepulcro de Don Quijote, Miguel de Unamuno
The greatest fool is he who has not done or said anything foolish in all his life.
- El Sepulcro de Don Quijote, Miguel de Unamuno
Miguel Hernández, tr. by Robert Bly, from Selected Poems; “Before Hatred, Thirsting,”
Vicente Aleixandre, from Shadow of Paradise: Poems; "The Silence,"The Sleepers,"
“A heart is made mature by darkness and art.”
— Antonio Machado, tr. by Robert Bly, “The Water Wheel,” wr. c. 1927
Pedro Salinas, tr. by Ruth Katz Crispin, from Memory in My Hands: The Love Poetry of Pedro Salinas; “The voice I owe to you”
Drawing about my favourite play ever cause I got inspired while re-reading it^^ 🐑
"Spanish Piggy can't hurt you, he is not real".
Spanish Piggy:
