Antonio Machado
Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machadocwas a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98.
Life
Machado was born in Seville one year after his brother Manuel. The family moved to Madrid in 1883 and both brothers enrolle ...
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
...
The wind, one brilliant day, called
to my soul with an odor of jasmine.
'In return for the odor of my jasmine,
...
Has my heart gone to sleep?
Have the beehives of my dreams
stopped working, the waterwheel
of the mind run dry,
...
Hills of silver plate,
grey heights, dark red rocks
through which the Duero bends
its crossbow arc
...
Who set, between those rocks like cinder,
to show the honey of dream,
that golden broom,
those blue rosemaries?
...
Comments
I lived in Spain in the later sixties. The college kids I hung around with loved bullfighting, Real Madrid and Machado, not always in that order. He was, they would say to mea calm voice and someone who loved the people. They respected and loved the gypsy flash of Lorca (these were people who recited in the streets, to women from under balconies, in bars amidst the noise) but Machado was their honored and loving friend who gave them back a language that was their own.
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Antonio Machado was one of the greatest poet of Spain and one of the greatest of the Generation of'98.
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