Teresa de la Parra Quotes

1889–1936 Venezuela

Ana Teresa Parra Sanojo (born 5 October 1889 in Paris, died 23 April 1936 in Madrid), known by her pseudonym Teresa de la Parra, was a Spanish-language writer who lived in Venezuela and Europe.

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I have said and still say that the dirtiest jobs are coal and politics. One almost always gets one's hands soiled.

Nobody is a prophet in their own country. ("Vicente Cochocho")

Mama Blanca's Memoirs (1929)

Who ever remembers to thank the sun for shining or water for quenching one's thirst? ("Vicente Cochocho")

Mama Blanca's Memoirs (1929)

"Glory is only for those who seek her," a sage once remarked. ("Vicente Cochocho")

Mama Blanca's Memoirs (1929)

Lyric poetry bares the soul and needs great purity and modesty or it risks becoming comical. (1925)

I like poets and writers who stimulate my dreams, these are the true masters of the soul. (to Clemencia Miró)

The truth is bitter. I swallowed it in silence. ("Aurora")

Mama Blanca's Memoirs (1929)

Receive...this portion of my spirit, and don't forget that here from my solitude, sunken in the silence of its "closed orchard," it waits in turn for you to come.

Ifigenia (1924)

Those who think they know their native land well because they have never traveled outside it are mistaken. Through travel we get to know our own native land better. (1927)

I take as my masters in the expression of the modern novel Anatole France, Alphonse Daudet, Maupassant, Catulle Mendés, and Valle Inclán. I consider them my masters because I believe they have influenced me the most.

I am writing to forget my fear . . .

Ifigenia (1924)

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