Jose Lezama Lima famous quotes

The violet sea longs for the birth of gods, for to be born here is an unspeakable feast, a drumroll of commanding retinues and tritons.
-- Jose Lezama Lima

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The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.
-- Jose Lezama Lima

#Revolutionary #Simpletons

If you must go nowhere, step out.
-- Jose Lezama Lima

#Steps

The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.
-- Jose Lezama Lima

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Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.
-- Jose Lezama Lima

#Giving

Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England

The sea is endless when you are in a rowboat.

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

Violet, the Dowager Countess: ‘I have plenty of friends I don’t like.

I do love violets; they tell the history of woman's love.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It’s as natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy and it can save.