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Julia de Burgos on Memorial Day

1914–1953 Puerto Rico

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How immense is being, when you thought yourself dead!

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

At your chest Martí, I knock among tears/in this hour of man and of war,/so you may arrive, at peace, awake,/over the greatest pain of America.

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

the great death waits to gather me in its 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.