All uncertainly is fruitful... so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.

— Antonio Machado

Between living and dreaming there is a third thing. Guess it.

— Antonio Machado

Don't try to rush things: for the cup to run over, it must first be filled.

— Antonio Machado

Hope says: one day you will see her, if you will only wait. Despair says:all you have left of her is your bitterness. Beat, heart… The earth has not swallowed everything.

— Antonio Machado

I. Don't trace out your profile--forget your side view--all that is outer stuff.II. Look for your other half who always walks next to you and tends to be who you aren't.

— Antonio Machado

I dreamt -- marvelous 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.

— Antonio Machado

I thought my fireplace dead and stirred the ashes. I burned my fingers.

— Antonio Machado

Like an abandoned dog who cannot find smell or a track and roams along the roads, with no road, like the child who in a night of the fair gets lost among the crowd, and the air is dusty, and the candles fluttering,--astounded, his heart weighed down by music and by pain;that’s how I am, drunk, sad by nature, a mad and lunar guitarist, a poet, and an ordinary man lost in dreams, searching constantly for God among the mists.

— Antonio Machado

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

— Antonio Machado

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

— Antonio Machado