More quotes by Teresa de la Parra
Nobody is a prophet in their own country. ("Vicente Cochocho")
"Glory is only for those who seek her," a sage once remarked. ("Vicente Cochocho")
Lyric poetry bares the soul and needs great purity and modesty or it risks becoming comical. (1925)
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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Three sleepless nights I passed in sounding on,
Through words and things, a dim and perilous way.
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