Through reflections and phrases, poets, characterized by the ability to easily connect with their emotions and use the appropriate words to narrate situations, encounters or disagreements, and give us a different perspective regarding what they wish to convey to the world. With their works they give us wisdom through one of the briefest forms of expression: verse.
So that, The poets’ phrases are a way of seeing reality through lyrics a perspective focused on both ideas and emotions.
15. There are defeats that have more dignity than a victory (Jorge Luis Borges)
A defeat can mean the maximum and honest point of our effort since not all victories are obtained in an honest way.
16. It is typical of those with narrow minds to attack everything that does not fit in their heads (Antonio Machado)
When a person cannot understand some situation or knowledge, they try to discard it or downplay it.
17. He who does not travel, who does not listen to music, who does not find grace in himself dies slowly (Pablo Neruda)
Life is made up of small or large pleasures that, if we do not experience them, we could be developing biochemical processes without living.
18. If you always try to be normal you will never discover how extraordinary you can be (Maya Angelou)
From time to time we must allow ourselves to explore more of what we can be.
19. Let’s not throw dirt in our eyes: the car is a wheelchair (Nicanor Parra)
Appreciation of the negative aspects of the constant use of automobiles.
20. I was born on a day when God was sick (César Vallejo)
This phrase by the Peruvian poet expresses his pessimism when it comes to evaluating his life. One of the most revealing poets’ phrases
21. Bravo lion, my heart has appetites, not reason (Alfonsina Storni)
About the intensity with which Alfonsina faced the world.
22. You can forget the one you have laughed with but not the one you have cried with (Khalil Gibran)
People who are in difficult times become more valuable and intensely endearing.
23. Reason is lost while reasoning (Antonio Porchia)
Reaching a point where we have gone so deep that we escape reality.
24. Only one thing is clear: that the meat is filled with worms (Nicanor Parra)
This phrase by the poet Nicanor Parra alludes to the fact that no one escapes death.
25. I see at the end of my rough path, that I was the architect of my own destiny (Amado Nervo)
In the end we see that all the decisions we have made have been responsible for the direction our lives took.
26. Happy times in humanity are the empty pages of history (Gabriela Mistral)
Dramatic events transcend more since due to their strength they open significant changes.
27. Knowing more is being freer (César Vallejo)
The power that knowledge gives us leads us to freedom.
28. Sad is the man in whom nothing remains of a child (Arturo Graf)
About preserving characteristics of the child we were.
29. If at night you cry because you don’t see the sun, the tears will prevent you from seeing the stars (Tagore)
Do not let yourself be totally overshadowed by adverse situations, do not stay in them, since we can deny ourselves the possibility of learning from them or easily become detached.
30. Sometimes a man has to fight so hard for life that he doesn’t have time to live it. (Bukowski)
About the current system we live in
31. God created the cat so that man could pet the lion (Charles Baudelaire)
Interesting reflection that honors the little feline.
32. There is nothing that fuels love more than the fear of losing the loved one (Francisco de Quevedo)
The fear of loneliness and an insecure attachment can lead us to perform many feats in the name of love.
33. Hesitators who doubt security will not do very great things (Thomas Eliot)
This phrase from the poet Thomas Eliot motivates us to perform more safely in various situations.
34. Do not write under the rule of emotion. Let it die and evoke it later. If you are then able to relive it as it was, you have partly reached the halfway point (Horacio Quiroga)
On self-control in the narrative process Observe an emotion as a spectator, an apprentice, to rescue wisdom and then add poetic passion.
35. What most outrages the charlatan is someone who is silent and dignified (Juan Ramon Jimenez)
Since, contrary to him, his honest posture alone makes him uncomfortable because it brings him closer to his falsehood and superficiality.
36. He who knows pain, knows everything (Dante Alighieri)
Pain contains such wisdom that once we experience it something about us changes.
37. A woman looks at her body uneasily, as if it were an unreliable ally in the fight for love (Leonar Cohen)
About the insecurities associated with what has traditionally been considered feminine.
38. The most difficult is not the first kiss, but the last (Paul Geraldy)
Since it represents farewell.
39. We are all equal before the law, but not before those in charge of applying it (Stanislaw J. Lec)
This phrase by the poet Stanislaw Lec refers to the irregularities of the institutions.
40. Those who die for a great cause never die in vain (Lord Byron)
They are always remembered for what they did.
41. Yes, bravery is crazy, but full of greatness (Reynaldo Arenas)
Acts that require a certain courage are considered for people who have probably lost their minds.
42. The past and the future are nothing compared to the severe today (Adelaide A. Procter)
Only the present is lived and represents a constant battle.
43. It could have been this, it could have been that, but he is loved and hated for what he is (Rudyard Kipling)
In this phrase from Kipling, the essence and real value of each element is rescued. One of those poets’ phrases to remember for its potential to make us reflect.
44. But it is so lonely that words commit suicide (Alejandra Pizarnik)
This phrase from the Argentine poet refers to a state of complete melancholy.
45. No one will understand with what secret emotion the purest beauties my spirit interprets, you will understand it because you are a poet. (Abraham Valdelomar)
About the sensitivity and perspective with which a poet perceives the world.
46. Delicacy synthesizes the beautiful (José María Eguren)
About the details of an element that make it pleasant to others.
47. Friends of the present time are like melons: you have to try fifty before you find a good one (Claude Mermet)
There will be many circumstances that will put us in front of a loyal friend.
48. Your wisdom is worth as much as nothing if no one knows how much your knowledge is (Aulus Persius)
Each person owns and gives value to what you experience
49. Knowledge comes but wisdom remains (Alfred Tennyson)
About what we gain through time and constant discovery.
50. He who does not know the truth is ignorant; but he who knows it and denies it, he is a criminal (Bertolt Brecht)
This phrase from the poet Bertolt Brecht, brings us closer to dishonesty in a peculiar way
51. At the threshold of death equality begins (Charles P. Colardeau)
At the end of our lives we begin a process where we all look exactly the same.
52. The safe friend is known in the uncertain situation (Ennio)
About those loyal friendships that nourish our existence.
53. Revenge is always a pleasure of narrow, sick and shrunken spirits (Juvenal)
This phrase brings us closer to the profile of any vengeful person.
54. Man is a god when he dreams and a beggar when he reflects (Friedrich Hölderlin)
Dreams make us feel powerful when reflecting, stepping on land because it shows us our reality.
55. All my assets are my friends (Emely Dickinson)
And friends are probably the most valuable thing we can have.
56. There is no man more unhappy than the one for whom indecision has become a habit (Henrich Heine)
Living in total anguish over the lack of control over our decisions can involve us in a case.
57. Hope for few things, and fear even fewer things (Charles A. Swinburne)
Our desires and energies must be placed on something superior and transcendent, for this author.
58. Man, become essential: when the world passes, what is of chance will fall; the essence will remain (Angelus Silesius)
On the importance of the transcendental.
59. A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him (Ezra Pound)
There is no worse slavery than the nullification of our potentialities and codependency.
60. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom (Robert Frost)
About the reason for existence of a poem.
61. Courage makes winners; concord makes invincible (Casimir Delavigne)
United we can achieve a lot.
62. We look everywhere for the absolute and we always only find things (Novalis)
Many times the goal is not just to search.
63. The pain of those who cry in secret is sincere (Martial)
This phrase gives us an example of prudence.
64. After his blood, the most personal thing a man can give is a tear (Alphonse de Lammartine)
Open your heart in the intimacy of your emotions.
65. Only the man who expects nothing is truly free (Edward Yong)
When we see ourselves freed from the weight of expectations.
66. He who has undertaken nothing will finish nothing (Geoffrey Chaucer)
We must start at some point, it is the most important step, start.
67. For the industrious bee there is no time to be sad (William Blake)
When we let ourselves be distracted by obligations and work.
68. Freedom does not consist in doing what you want, but in doing what you must (Ramón de Campoamor)
About the value of responsibilities.
69. A person without friends runs the risk of never getting to know each other (Julio Ramón Ribeyro)
Friends provide the wisdom necessary to develop us.
70. In each future reader, the writer is reborn (Julio Ramón Ribeyro)
About the writer and reader relationship. Each reader reinvents the story according to their perspective.
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