92 Quotes by Antonio Machado

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

At the very smallest wheel of our reasoning it is possible for a handful of questions to break the bank of our answers.

Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind sees the path

Wanderer, your footsteps are the road, and nothing more; wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking. By walking one makes the road, and upon glancing behind one sees the path. . .

In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it.

There is no road, the road is made by walking.

Hell is the bloodcurdling mansion of time, in whose profoundest circle Satan himself waits, winding a gargantuan watch in his hand.

Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea: rudder, anchor, oars and the fear of going down.