Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Jose Lezama Lima

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Cuban writer Jose Lezama Lima.
Last updated on December 22, 2024.
Jose Lezama Lima

José María Andrés Fernando Lezama Lima was a Cuban writer, poet and essayist. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Cuban and Latin American literature. His novel Paradiso is one of the most important works in Spanish and one of the best novels of the 20th Century according to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo.

The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.
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.
The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere. — © Jose Lezama Lima
The revolutionary simpleton is everywhere.
Give me the outside of all things, I am a fanatic for the externality of things.
If you must go nowhere, step out.
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