Julia de Burgos quotes

Don't let the hand you hold hold you down. (Julia de Burgos)
All the flowers... are open, awaiting my arrival, and they clothe beaches of the most beautiful blue, to receive my life, whole and healthy like before. I want to spend days by the sea, burning myself in the sun like we did in our juvenile days, and to be able to return and see my river, with the same tranquil and yearning eyes as I did when I was its bride. View quote
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I was the quietest one./The voice with almost no echo./The conscience spread in a syllable of anguish,/scattered and tender, through all the silences...I was the quietest one./The one who leapt from earth with no more weapon than a verse./And here you see me, stars,/scattered and tender, with his love in my chest! View quote
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And still they ask me to trade songs for words,/they can't imagine my pulse without poems. View quote
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Me, fatalist,/watching life coming and going/from my contemporaries...Me, inside myself,/always waiting for something/that my mind can't define. View quote
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At each advancing step on my route forward/back was ripped by the desperate flapping wings of the old guard. View quote
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The shadow of tomorrow stands watch over my life. View quote
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The storm passed faithful over my tired soul/when you appeared with the tenderness of a star. View quote
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It is no longer a song./It is a battlecry./Battlecry of living strength,/of men who struggle,/of minds that free themselves,/of free arms/ready not to fall./The masses roar./They think./They are. View quote
Julia de Burgos
It is in you (the hispanic people of america) where my song sings, where my voice/began in mountainous screams a free scream. View quote
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We are of the new voice, stretched, instinctive/that will shake the language of progress. (Julia de Burgos)
we shall dance the dance of life/to the rhythm of a fire of light/that will burst from the sun. View quote
Julia de Burgos
At your chest Martí, I knock among tears/in this hour of man and of war,/so you may arrive, at peace, awake,/over the greatest pain of America. View quote
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The imperialism of the United States/has a wide grave:/there is your dead wife/there your little one/there your cow/there your mare/your field and your land. View quote
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honor grew white hair/in the homicidal empire. View quote
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Do not fear the look that will empty my heart in you. View quote
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Since I never had a world among the living/offer me a world among the dead! View quote
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I was a star spilled in your arms. View quote
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The word can't cope with my load of anguish,/and my exalted pain can't fit in my verse. View quote
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She goes on being a poem, Julia de Burgos;/the bourgeois of the cosmos, who is not a bourgeois/the way men want her to be-since she smiles/much more than at the mirror, the river and the jungle. View quote
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Let no one profane my death with sobs. (Julia de Burgos)