The 20 Best Phrases by Gloria Fuertes (and Their Explanation)

Gloria Fuertes (1917 – 1998) was one of the most representative authors of the Generation of ’50.

From Madrid, she was born in the Lavapiés neighborhood into a humble family. He developed his poetic and literary skills especially addressing children, to the point of becoming a true icon and public figure.

Great phrases from Gloria Fuertes

This woman left an indelible mark on children’s literature of the 20th century in Spain. Let’s learn more about her thoughts and her poetic style through the best phrases (and verses) of Gloria Fuertes (about education, love, poetry…).

Let’s get started, without further ado.

1. The woman and the child need more affection, what milk!

Certainly, the female gender and children were especially unprotected during the postwar era. This is what Gloria Fuertes stated.

2. The most beautiful things in life happen in the animal world.

A naturalist, in this famous quote he made clear his passion for the animal world.

3. And create that phrase that everyone embraces; We poets should pull out our swords, invent more colors and write Our Fathers.

About the profession of poet.

4. I have a feeling that someone who cannot love me loves me.

One of many verses in which he complained about his lack of luck in the romantic sphere.

5. Sometimes I want to ask you things, and you intimidate me with your gaze, and I return to silence infected by the shy perfume of your roses.

A sentence that declares a respectful and pure love.

6. The moon without a mirror at night, the night without mysteries because of the moon, then I realized, you have a back as beautiful as a deer.

In the intimacy of the night, unique looks full of beauty emerge.

7. Who said that melancholy is elegant? Take off that mask of sadness, there is always reason to sing, to praise the most holy mystery, let’s not be cowards, let’s run and tell whoever, there is always someone we love and who loves us.

An ode to hope in the love sphere.

8. You can create abstract painting, sculpture and music, but a house, a love and a poem cannot be abstract.

They must adhere to a mystical concreteness. A beautiful contradiction related by Gloria Fuertes.

9. Poets love blood! To the blood locked in the bottle of the body, not to the blood spilled in the fields, nor to the blood spilled by jealousy, by judges, by warriors; We love the blood shed in the body, the happy blood that laughs through the veins, the blood that dances when we kiss.

Poets, in short, love passion and enjoyment.

10. On the tree of my chest there is an incarnate bird. When I see you he gets scared, you’re a scarecrow!

Free interpretation of the reader.

11. We must worry about healing the seeds, to bind hearts and write the poem that infects us all.

The ultimate mission of every self-respecting poet.

12. Poets, let’s not waste time, let’s work, because little blood reaches the heart.

Another phrase from Gloria Fuertes that marks the path to follow for those in her guild.

13. The best thing about forgetting is remembering.

Brave paradox of a melancholic heart.

14. Crystals of your absence riddle my voice, which spreads in the night through the glacial desert of my bedroom. I would like to be an angel and I am a wolf. I would like to be luminously yours and I am darkly mine.

One of his most unforgettable verses.

15. In view of what I have seen I undress, I undress myself and maintain myself, I love having what I don’t have.

A series of paradoxes with a poetic and touching tone.

16. High and profound is what unites us, what devours us and creates us; You can now live having your soul held by the soul of the one you wait for.

Defining love.

17. We detest hunters and even more so dissectors—worse than taking life is preserving death.

About the repulsion that animal abuse caused him.

18. Poetry should not be a weapon, it should be a hug, an invention, a discovery to others of what is happening inside them, that is, a discovery, a breath, an addition, a shudder. Poetry should be mandatory.

A verse that reveals his love for this literary genre.

19. What a bad kind the human race is.

About the discomfort that some human acts caused him.

20. The astronaut from the moon said: -Everything is OK… what you can barely endure is this silence.

In another galaxy, and yet so lost.