10 Quotes by Vicente Aleixandre

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.

Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

Wrap me up in the reddest cloak, in that flight of your tendons, and lead me into another kingdom, into the heroic ability to love, into the combination to every safe, into the wild dice you feel in your sad fingers when roses shipwreck next to the bridge of salvation. When there’s nothing you can do.

Did I know who I was, or did I just learn to forget myself?

If I die, leave me alone. Don’t sing to me. Bury me wrapped in the deck I leave behind, in that lovely treasure that will know how to strum me like a sure hand. I’ll sound like a fragrance from the depths, very grave. I ‘ll rise to your ears, and from there, turned into pure vegetation, I ’ll debunk myself, untelling my own story, my own plot, Rowing back into my mouth left ajar, into the Dream that keeps on swallowing and, like a cardboard mask, won ’t cough me up.

I have such a dark mission, loving you.

I’m as quiet as a taut bow, and all for the sake of ignoring you, oh night of cardinal spaces, of torrential silence and lava.

That profound darkness where weeping doesn’t exist.