Violeta Parra famous quotes

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Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars.
-- Violeta Parra

#Broken Heart #Stars #Tears
Write as you like, use the rhythms that come out, try different instruments, sit at the piano, destroy the metric, shout instead of singing, blow your guitar and ring the horn. Hate mathematics, and love eddies. Creation is a bird without a flight plan, that will never fly in a straight line.
-- Violeta Parra

#Hate #Writing #Blow
Only love with its science makes us so innocent.
-- Violeta Parra

#Innocent
Don't cry when the sun is gone, because the tears won't let you see the stars. [When you lose one blessing, anticipate, look and work for a silver lining and when you find it, you will have a new grateful perspective.]
-- Violeta Parra

#Stars #Grateful #Blessing

I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?
Before I die, I want to be somebodyâ€™s favorite hiding place, the place they can put everything they know they need to survive, every secret, every solitude, every nervous prayer, and be absolutely certain I will keep it safe. I will keep it safe.
You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the hooves of a bay mare, or that I'd ask the sorcerers for some magic potion made from roots and send you a terrible gift: my precious perfumed handkerchief. Damn you! I will not grant your cursed soul vicarious tears or a single glance. And I swear to you by the garden of the angels, I swear by the miracle-working ikon, and by the fire and smoke of our nights: I will never come back to you.
Each man kills the thing he loves.
To fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.
Poetry is a way for me to explore a tingly feeling, to let it play itself out, and also to map it. I feel like I'm making little star maps when I write poems.
You know what shows today are missing? Stars.
If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment itâ€™s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me.
I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.

Violeta Parra famous quotes

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