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Quotes from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos — Julia de Burgos

1914–1953 Puerto Rico

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honor grew white hair/in the homicidal empire.

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

the truth breathed from the lung of the earth

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

It is in you (the hispanic people of america) where my song sings, where my voice/began in mountainous screams a free scream

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

you who feel the sobs of the homeland that breathes slavery

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

General Rafael, Trujillo General/may your name be an eternal echo of cadavers/Dictator of the splendid Dominican people/massacred in your desires and asleep in its rages,/what is your scepter made of? From what sun are you nourished?

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

Let no one profane my death with sobs

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

The Hitlers, the Mussolinis.../Bullets! Bullets! Bullets! Bullets!/The two vipers of Europe/who pact with death.

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

She goes on being a poem, Julia de Burgos;/the bourgeois of the cosmos, who is not a bourgeois/the way men want her to be-since she smiles/much more than at the mirror, the river and the jungle

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

the word love/will rise from the earth/in an innocent volcano/that renews universes

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

all of me is loneliness/in a rebellious heart

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

your two hands no longer lift me/to gather the sky's harvest of stars

Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos (1982)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Julia de Burgos (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.