"I thought my fire was out, and stirred……" — Antonio Machado
"I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers."
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47 Quotes by Antonio Machado
Antonio Machado has 47 quotes on this site.
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Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
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My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide…
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Those who deny the existence of the truth postulate the truth of their denial and plainly contradict themselves.
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By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path
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Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.…
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In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.
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Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his…
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At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank…
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The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that…
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Life is the path you beat while you walk it.
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Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.
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More Ashes Quotes
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A normal way that the American free market system has worked is that we have a process of unwinding. It's…
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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise…
— Anne Baxter
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Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.
— Thomas Browne
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Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
— Leonard Cohen
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Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm…
— Pablo Neruda
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Time is passing. Yet, for the United States of America, there will be no forgetting September the 11th. We will…
— George W. Bush
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The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow…
— Tennessee Williams
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To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.
— Martial
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When the race is ended, and the play is either won or lost, and ye are in the utmost circle…
— Samuel Rutherford
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