César Vallejo quotes

César Vallejo was a Peruvian poet, writer, and journalist celebrated for his innovative and deeply emotional literary work. His poetry reflected themes of suffering, social injustice, and existential crisis, and had a profound impact on Latin American literature. He remains one of the most influential voices in Spanish-language poetry. Here are 5 of his quotes:

Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.

César Vallejo

The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.

César Vallejo

Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.

César Vallejo

The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.

César Vallejo