Antonio Machado famous quotes

The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.
-- Antonio Machado

#Wise #Blow #Men

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.
-- Antonio Machado

#Time #Travel #Journey

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.
-- Antonio Machado

#Dream #Sleep #Eye

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits
-- Antonio Machado

#Believe #Thinking #Veils

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.
-- Antonio Machado

#Dream #Thirds

XXIX Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking. Traveller, the path is your tracks And nothing more. Traveller, there is no path The path is made by walking. By walking you make a path And turning, you look back At a way you will never tread again Traveller, there is no road Only wakes in the sea.
-- Antonio Machado

#Sea #Track #Looks

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
-- Antonio Machado

#Success #Sweet #Heart

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
-- Antonio Machado

#Fundamentals #Poet

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.
-- Antonio Machado

#Path #Traveler #Walks

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
-- Antonio Machado

#Being Yourself #Being Single #Men

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.
-- Antonio Machado

#Patience #Running #Trying

Last night as I was sleeping, I dreamt - marvellous error! - That it was God I had here inside my heart.
-- Antonio Machado

#Heart #Sleep #Night

The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.
-- Antonio Machado

#Wall #Memories #Spring

By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path
-- Antonio Machado

#Spiritual #Path #Behinds

Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
-- Antonio Machado

#Philosophical #Denial #Deny

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
-- Antonio Machado

#Ocean #Anchors #Sea

Death is something we shouldn't fear because, while we are, death isn't, and when death is, we aren't.
-- Antonio Machado

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.
-- Antonio Machado

#Fire #Ashes #Fingers

There are a lot of doubts over the size and effect of new competitors in the cellular sector.
-- Antonio Machado

#Doubt #Size #Cellular

Pathmaker, there is no path; You make the path by walking, By walking you make the Path
-- Antonio Machado

#Path #Walking

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
-- Antonio Machado

#Writing #Order #Firsts

I love Jesus, who said to us: Heaven and earth will pass away. When heaven and earth have passed away, my word will remain. What was your word, Jesus? Love? Forgiveness? Affection? All your words were one word: Wakeup.
-- Antonio Machado

#Jesus #Heaven #Passing Away

There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world.
-- Antonio Machado

#Change #Personality #Doe

The great philosophers are poets who believe in the reality of their poems.
-- Antonio Machado

#Believe #Reality #Philosopher

Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. (Walk, there is no path, the path is made by walking.)
-- Antonio Machado

#Path #Hay #Als

Wherever learning breeds specialists, the sum of human culture is enhanced thereby. That is the illusion and consolation of specialists.
-- Antonio Machado

#Culture #Illusion #Consolation

The absence of vices adds so little to the sum of one's virtues.
-- Antonio Machado

#Vices #Add #Littles

Man's passion for truth is such that he will welcome the bitterest of all postulates so long as it strikes him as true.
-- Antonio Machado

#Truth #Passion #Men

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.
-- Antonio Machado

#Light #Understanding #Vices

Life is the path you beat while you walk it It's the walking that beats the path It is not the path that makes the walk
-- Antonio Machado

#Teaching #Learning #Path

I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.
-- Antonio Machado

#Views #Your Side #Looks

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.
-- Antonio Machado

#Philosophy #Lying #Believe

Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence
-- Antonio Machado

#Running #Dream #Heart

The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
-- Antonio Machado

#Flower #Garden #Wind

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path that never will be trod again. Wanderer, there is no road-- Only wakes upon the sea. Caminante, son tus huellas el camino, y nada más; caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar. Al andar se hace camino, y al volver la vista atrás se ve la senda que nunca se ha de volver a pisar. Caminante, no hay camino, sino estelas en la mar.
-- Antonio Machado

#Son #Sea #Hay

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .
-- Antonio Machado

#Inspirational #Path #Made

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.
-- Antonio Machado

#Hands #Circles #Waiting

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.
-- Antonio Machado

#Answers #Wheels #Break

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.
-- Antonio Machado

#Traffic #Sensibility

Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
-- Antonio Machado

#Path #Life Is #Beats

What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
-- Antonio Machado

#Garden #Done

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
-- Antonio Machado

#Thinking #Fool #Values

The only living language is the language in which we think and have our being.
-- Antonio Machado

#Thinking #Language

My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I'm not a sad man, and I don't believe I sadden anyone else.
-- Antonio Machado

#Philosophy #Believe #Sadness

All uncertainty is fruitfull ... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand
-- Antonio Machado

#Long #Decision #Wish

The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
-- Antonio Machado

#Writing #Soul #Sin

Walk through life in dreams out of love of the hand that leads us.
-- Antonio Machado

#Marriage #Dream #Hands

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.
-- Antonio Machado

#Sea #Feet #Foam

There is no way; we make the road by walking it.
-- Antonio Machado

#Wisdom #Way #Walking

Beware of the community in which blasphemy does not exist: underneath, atheism runs rampant.
-- Antonio Machado

#Running #Community #Atheism