Quotes by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

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Poetry is to the knowledge of Humanity what love is to the other passions. Love is a mystery.

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Everyone feels it. But only some of us are given to keep, like a treasure, the vivid memory of what they felt. I think these are the poets. Moreover: I think that alone is why they are poets.

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The people have been, and always will be, the great poet of all times and of all nations... Popular poetry is the synthesis of poetry... No one knows better than he how to synthesize, in his works, the beliefs, aspirations and feelings of an age .

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Art possesses some mysterious charm that beautifies everything it touches.

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Everyone brings to the world, as it is his way, his truth...

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The truth is not always sublime.