Alfonsina Storni (1892-1938) “Quisiera esta tarde divina de octubre pasear por la orilla lejana del mar; que la arena de oro, y las aguas verdes, y los cielos puros me vieran pasar. Ser alta, soberbia, perfecta, quisiera, como una romana, para…
Sappho (7th-6th century BC) “Like the sweet apple which reddens upon the topmost bough, Atop on the topmost twig, which the pluckers forgot, somehow, Forget it not, nay; but got it not, for none could get it till now.” (Translated by…
Luis Rosales (1910-1992) “Como el náufrago metódico que contase las olas que le quedan para morir; y las contase, y las volviese a contar, para evitar errores, hasta la última hasta aquella que tiene la estatura de un niño y le…
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC-8 BC) “Dum loquimur, fugerit invida Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.” (While we speak, envious time will have already fled: seize the day, believing as little as possible in the next day.) Carmina, I,…
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) “Our emotions Are only “incidents” In the effort to keep day and night together.” A Note on War Poetry, st. 3-4 “The heavy burden of the growing soul Perplexes and offends more, day by day; Week…
Jane Austen (1775-1817) “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.” Emma, chapter 9 “My idea of good company… is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what…
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) “Without music, life would be a mistake.” Twilight of the Idols “A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.” The…
Stendhal (1783-1842) “La beauté n’est que la promesse du bonheur.” (Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.) De L’Amour (On Love), Ch. 17.
Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC-19 BC) “Omnia vincit amor: et nos cedamus amori.” (Love conquers all things, so we too shall yield to love). Eclogae, 10.69. “Labor omnia vicit improbus et duris urgens in rebus egestas”. (Toil conquered everything, unrelenting…