Julia de Burgos Quotes

She goes on being a poem, Julia de Burgos;/the bourgeois of the cosmos, who is not a bourgeois/the way men want her to be-since she smiles/much more than at the mirror, the river and the jungle

América Latina,/¡Rebélate/contra el yanqui invasor!

I have known the immensity of the sky high above the roses

¿Dónde rueda la risa que adornaba mi vida/cuando tu corazón recogía mis tristezas?

And yet, you have not died Martí, you only sleep;/the earth requested you like a flag

the word love/will rise from the earth/in an innocent volcano/that renews universes

¡Oh amor entretenido en astros y palomas,/cómo en rocío feliz cruzas mi alma!

the great death waits to gather me in its stars.

How can they silence me/when all the echoes of the universe shall be/symphonies in my forehead?

ya que no tuve nunca un mundo entre los vivos,/un mundo entre los muertos ofrecedme, soldados!

And still they ask me to trade songs for words,/they can't imagine my pulse without poems

¡Obrero que alzas el mundo!/¡Obrero que todo entintas!/¡Mano que empuja el futuro

America Latin,/rebel/against the yankee invader!

Puerto Rico is the sword/that will delay the advance/of the saxon empire!/Let her wound be the last/that on its latin soil/the vile oppressor makes.

Iba fiel la tormenta sobre mi alma cansada/cuando te apareciste con ternura de estrella.