30 phrases by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer that will make you feel special

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It is possible that you know some work by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, especially if they sent you at school to read his poems or one of his works ... Most likely, you know his work "Rimas y Leyendas" which is the most famous of all. His lesser known name was Gustavo Adolfo Claudio Domínguez Bastida. He was born in 1836 and physically died in 1870. We say that he died physically because to this day he is still alive among us thanks to his works and the feeling that he put in each of his words.

Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was a poet, writer and novelist in Spanish Romanticism. Today he continues to be one of the most important figures in Spanish literature and therefore, in educational centers he continues to be a figure that must be studied and learned. He was quite famous during his life, but as often happens, it was after his death that his works were published and he became even more famous ... a pity that he cannot see that hundreds of years after his death he is still among those! most relevant writers!

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Despite the fact that he died at the age of 34 from tuberculosis, left a great legacy. He was characterized by having a delicate tone in his writing, a careful language and a special gift for the word. Below you will know some phrases of this young writer, who was leaving us as a legacy throughout his short life, so that today, we can continue to delight ourselves with them. They are full of feeling, love and, sweetness! They are ideal phrases so that you can dedicate yourself, to remember how beautiful life is or even to dedicate it to that special person who fills your heart with love every day of your life.

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Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer phrases that you will love

  1. That is me, who occasionally cross the world, without thinking where I come from, or where my steps will take me.
  2. You say you have a heart, and you only say it because you feel its beat. That is not heart ...; It is a machine that, to the beat that moves, makes noise.
  3. Sighs are air and go to the air! Tears are water and they go to the sea! Tell me, woman, when love is forgotten, do you know where it goes?
  4. Dreams are the spirit of reality with the forms of lies.
  5. It is necessary to make way for the deep waters, which will eventually break the dike, daily increased by a live spring.
  6. Poetry is and nothing else that melancholic and vague aspiration that agitates your spirit with the desire for an impossible perfection.
  7. Frankly speaking: there are frightening inequalities in this world.
  8. It is necessary to make way for the deep waters, which will eventually break the dike, daily increased by a live spring.
  9. In the majestic ensemble of creation, there is nothing that moves me so deeply, that caresses my spirit and gives my fantasy unusual flight like the peaceful and faint light of the moon.
  10. I have faith in the future.
  11. Do not say that, having exhausted his treasure, of matters lacking, the lyre fell silent; there may be no poets; but there will always be poetry.
  12. Strolling through the indifferent crowd this silent storm in my head.
  13. In the dark corners of my brain, huddled and naked, the extravagant children of my fantasy sleep silently waiting for Art to see them by word of mouth so that they can present themselves decently on the scene of the world.
  14. I don't know if that world of visions lives outside or goes inside us.
  15. Love is a chaos of light and darkness; the woman, an amalgam of perjury and tenderness; man, an abyss of greatness and smallness; life, in short, can be compared to a long chain with links of iron and gold.
  16. Here is, today, everything that I aspire to: to be a comparsa in the immense comedy of Humanity; and finished my role of bulking, getting behind the scenes without being whistled or applauded, without anyone even noticing my departure.
  17. And thought must be exercised, it must be thought every day and again and again, to preserve the life of thought.
  18. For a glance a world; for a smile, a sky; for a kiss ... I don't know what I would give you for a kiss!
  19. Everything is a lie: the glory, the gold. What I adore is only true: Freedom!
  20. The spectacle of the beautiful, in whatever form it is presented, raises the mind to noble aspirations.
  21. God, although invisible, always has a hand outstretched to lift by one end the burden that overwhelms the poor.
  22. As long as science does not discover the sources of life, as long as in the sea or in the sky, there is an abyss that is resistant to mathematical calculation, as long as humanity in its constant progress ignores where it is going, As long as there is a mystery for him! man, there will be poetry!
  23. The beautiful woman, when she polishes steel and contemplates her image, delights in herself; but in the end he looks for other eyes to fix his own, and if he can't find them, he gets bored.
  24. My existence, reduced to the present moment, floats in the ocean of created things like one of those luminous atoms that swim in the ray of the sun.
  25. Too bad that Love in a dictionary has no where to find when pride is simply pride and when it is dignity!
  26. I would like to forge for each one of you a wonderful stanza woven of exquisite phrases, in which you could wrap yourselves with pride, as in a purple cloak. I would like to be able to chisel the shape that is to contain you, as the golden glass that is to hold a precious perfume is chiselled.
  27. He who has imagination, how easily he draws a world out of nothing.
  28. Loneliness is very beautiful ... when you have someone to tell.
  29. Love is a mystery. Everything in him are phenomena to which more inexplicable; everything about him is illogical, everything about him is vague and absurd.
  30. The sun may be eternally cloudy, the sea may dry up for an instant, the axis of the earth may break like a weak glass ... Everything will happen! Death may cover me with its funereal crepe, but the flame of your love can never be extinguished in me.

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Which of all these pretty phrases did you like it more? They may be motivational quotes for any moment of your life.


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