The 20 Best Phrases By Luis Cernuda (and Great Verses)
Luis Cernuda (Seville, 1902 – Mexico City, 1963) was a prominent Spanish poet and literary critic, member of what was known as the Generation of ’27.
This Andalusian had a prominent role during the golden age of Spanish literature. A friend of Vicente Alexandre, Federico García-Lorca and Rafael Alberti, Cernuda’s poems traveled from surrealism to political criticism.
He spent his last years in Mexico, where he developed his stage of conceptual poetry. Exiled from his native country because of the Civil War, he found love in the bodybuilder Salvador Alighieri, to whom he dedicated several of his poems.
In today’s article We are going to know the best phrases of Luis Cernuda, as well as some of his verses and famous quotes that have gone down in history.
1. You justify my existence: if I do not know you, I have not lived; If I die without knowing you, I do not die, because I have not lived.
A great declaration of unconditional love.
2. My eternal madness, imagining happiness, dreams of the future, hopes for love, sunny journeys…
About his hopes for the future, which were partly cut short by the Spanish Civil War.
3. Security, that insect that nests in the steering wheels of the light…
Far from security is exploring, living.
4. There, there far away; where oblivion dwells.
From his homonymous work.
5. Return? Let him return who, after long years, after a long journey, is tired of the road and greed, of his land, his home, his friends, of the love that awaits him upon his faithful return.
Coming back is always pleasant, even if you leave many things behind.
6. I don’t know men. I spent years looking for them and fleeing from them without remedy. I don’t understand you? Or do I understand them too much?
From the poem ‘To a future poet’, one of the most remembered.
7. Childhood ended and I fell into the world.
There is a day when you wake up as an adult, with responsibilities and debts.
8. I will tell how you were born, forbidden pleasures, How a desire is born on towers of fear.
Verse by Luis Cernuda from his book “Peregrino”, from one of his most fundamental works: “Forbidden Pleasures”.
19. If man could say what he loves, if man could lift his love to the sky like a cloud in the light.
A verse from his book “If a man could say what he loves.”
20. In the south so distant I want to be confused. The rain there is nothing more than a half-open rose; Its very fog laughs, white laughter in the wind.
Verse from “I would like to be alone in the south.”
