Roque Dalton quotes
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“I believe the world is beautiful, and poetry, like bread, is for everyone.”
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“My veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, things, landscape and bread, the poetry of all.”
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“You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.”
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“I don't believe in angels but the moon is now dead for me. The last glass of wine is gone before the thirst I'm suffering from. The blue grass lost its way running away from your sails.”
-- Roque DaltonSource : Roque Dalton (1996). “Small Hours of the Night: Selected Poems of Roque Dalton”
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“The rose blinds the sharpshooting champions.”
-- Roque Dalton
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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“Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.”
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