The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset

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Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and...

Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and...

To live is to feel oneself lost.

To live is to feel oneself lost.

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of...

The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of...

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic,...

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet...

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet...

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a...

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a...

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Law is born from despair of human nature.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but...

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm...

To rule is not so much a question of the heavy hand as the firm...

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

I am I plus my circumstances.

I am I plus my circumstances.