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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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From my invaded nation,/the battlefield today is independence.

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

How immense is being, when you thought yourself dead!

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

It must be the caress of the useless,/the endless sadness of being a poet,/of singing and singing, without breaking/the peerless tragedy of existence.

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

Where does the laughter wander that decorated life/when your heart gathered my sadnesses?

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

Oh love entertained in stars and doves,/how like a joyous spray you cross my soul!

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

The storm passed faithful over my tired soul/when you appeared with the tenderness of a star.

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

From all the towns/strong arms will rise,/the arms of millions of men/who populate the progress of the earth.

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

Let our life be completely present./Let it search for the future only in the soul./Let it rehearse truths. Let it feel in idea./Let it always extend cutting distances.

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

Humanly, and free,/and distant, and matter/that down there, very deep/I will rhyme a song.

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

We are of the new voice, stretched, instinctive/that will shake the language of progress.

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

Since I never had a world among the living/offer me a world among the dead!

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

Puerto Rico is the sword/that will delay the advance/of the saxon empire!/Let her wound be the last/that on its latin soil/the vile oppressor makes.

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

America Latin,/rebel/against the yankee invader!

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

The imperialism of the United States/has a wide grave:/there is your dead wife/there your little one/there your cow/there your mare/your field and your land.

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

Whoever judges my soul by the skin that blankets me/doesn't even extend herself to what her voice reaches.

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

How can they silence me/when all the echoes of the universe shall be/symphonies in my forehead?

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

Towering view of the world where the moments/roll like pulses of the world of tomorrow.

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

The word can't cope with my load of anguish,/and my exalted pain can't fit in my verse.

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

Where does that sad moment begin/that drowned the dance of my spirit

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

I have known the immensity of the sky high above the roses

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.