Antonio Machado

“The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I would like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead."”

“Today is always still.”

“All uncertainty is fruitful, so long as it is accompanied by the wish to understand.”

“What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?”

“Death is something we should not fear because, while we are, death is not, and when death is, we are not.”

“The deepest words of the wise man teach us the same as the whistle of the wind when it blows or the sound of the water when it is flowing.”

“I dreamt — marvellous error! — that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.”

“My soul is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. It neither sleeps nor dreams, but watches, its eyes wide open on far-off things, and listens at the shores of the great silence.”

“Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.”

“Traveler, there is no path. The path is made by walking.”