The 20 best quotes by Gloria Fuertes (and their explanation)

We review the great thoughts of this poet and writer from Madrid.

Gloria Fuertes (1917 - 1998) was one of the most representative authors of the Generation of 50.

Born in Madrid, she was born in the neighborhood of Lavapiés in the heart of a humble family. She developed her poetic and literary skills mainly addressing to children, to the point of becoming a true icon and a public character.

Great phrases of Gloria Fuertes

This woman left an indelible mark on children's literature of the twentieth century in Spain. Let's get to know her thoughts and poetic style in more depth through the best phrases (and verses) of Gloria Fuertes (about education, love, poetry...).

Let's start, without further ado.

1. Women and children need more affection, what milk!

Certainly, women and children were especially unprotected during the post-war period. This is what Gloria Fuertes asserted.

2. The most beautiful things in life happen in the animal world.

Naturalist, in this famous quote she made clear her passion for the animal world.

And create that phrase that embraces the whole world; we poets should pull out our swords, invent more colors and write Our Fathers.

On the poet's craft.

4. I feel that he who cannot love me loves me loves me.

One of many verses in which he complained about his little luck in the romantic sphere.

5. Sometimes I want to ask you questions, and you intimidate me with your gaze, and I return to silence, infected by the shy perfume of your roses.

A sentence that declares a respectful and pure love.

6. The moon without mirror of the night, the night without mysteries by the moon, then I realized, you have a back as beautiful as a deer.

In the intimacy of the night, unique looks full of beauty emerge.

7. Who said that melancholy is elegant? Take off that mask of sadness, there is always a reason to sing, to praise the most holy mystery, let's not be cowards, let's run to tell anyone, there is always someone we love and who loves us.

An ode to hope in the realm of love.

8. Abstract painting, sculpture and music can be created, but a house, a love and a poem cannot be abstract.

They must adhere to a mystical concreteness. A beautiful contradiction told by Gloria Fuertes.

9. We poets love blood! The Blood enclosed in the bottle of the body, not the blood spilled in the fields, nor the blood spilled by jealousy, by judges, by warriors; we love the blood spilled in the body, the happy blood that laughs through the veins, the blood that dances when we give a kiss.

Poets, in short, love passion and enjoyment.

10. In the tree of my breast there is an incarnate bird. When I see you it gets scared, you are a scarecrow!

To the free interpretation of the reader.

11. We must worry about healing the seeds, bandaging hearts and writing the poem that will infect us all.

The ultimate mission of every self-respecting poet.

12. Poets, let us not waste time, let us work, because little blood reaches the heart.

Another phrase of Gloria Fuertes that marks the path to follow for those of her guild.

13. The best thing about forgetting is remembering.

Brave paradox of a melancholic heart.

14. Crystals of your absence riddle my voice, which spreads in the night through the glacial desert of my bedroom. I would like to be an angel and I am a she-wolf. I would like to be luminously yours and I am darkly mine.

One of her most unforgettable verses.

15. In view of what I see, I undress myself, I undress myself and I keep myself, I love this having what I don't have.

A series of paradoxes with a poetic and touching touch.

16. High deep is this that unites us, this that devours us and that creates us; you can already live having your soul caught by the soul of the one you wait for.

Defining love.

17. We detest the hunters and more the dissectors - worse than to take life is to preserve death.

On the repulsion that caused him the animal mistreatment.

18. Poetry should not be a weapon, it should be an embrace, an invention, an unveiling to others what happens inside them, that, a discovery, a breath, an attachment, a shudder. Poetry must be obligatory.

A verse that discovers his love for this literary genre.

19. What a bad genre is the human genre.

About the uneasiness that some human acts produced in him.

20. The astronaut from the moon said: -Everything is going OK... what can hardly be endured is this silence.

In another galaxy, yet so lost.