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Antonio Machado Quotes: Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.
         

Avoid pulpits, platforms, stages and pedestals. Keep to the hard ground. It is the only way you can judge your approximate status as a man.


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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. . .

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. . .



Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.



My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.

My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.



Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.



I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.

I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.



Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.

Traveler, there is no path, the path must be forged as you walk.



I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.

I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.



Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits

Under all that we think, lives all we believe, like the ultimate veil of our spirits



What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.

What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.



Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.





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