Juan Antonio Villacañas Quotes

God borders my incredulity
constantly.
And my incredulity is so much God, that I am almost sure
to adore Him.

The earth is brief,
as brief as a man’s solemnity.
………
When you, Earth, stop palpitating in my flesh
I, flesh, will give you all my earth.

I come to make song, after the tears.
And even if a choir of men
sprayed my tongue with silence,
poetry will come, with liberating voice,
to make my song fall from the trees
and reach the most deeply buried abysses of those tears
that the child lent me when crying himself into life.<p>Because my infant song
is stronger than man’s tears,
and it could even conquer me
robbing the need of tears from the sun and the wind.

Death is a life of questions
that are being buried,
and one ends always
with doubt tangled in the lips.

If pain does not die
we shall make it poetry.

I have an immensity which shivers in the oceans,
being, as I am, only a little fountain, small as an eye.

Thought
is a flower from other worlds, a tale
that is torn in each written word.
……………<p>I go outdoors
to give rest
to the soul’s tired muscles.