Vicente Aleixandre famous quotes

03-25-2025

Poets are born, not paid.
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time.
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets. To plant a pine, one need only own a shovel.
Then from the Mint walks forth the man of rhyme, Happy to catch me, just at dinner-time.
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
Poetry is the purest form of insanity.
Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.
I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.
My entire career is a succession of things I did wrong and learned from.
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

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