Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Vicente Aleixandre

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Vicente Aleixandre

Vicente Pío Marcelino Cirilo Aleixandre y Merlo was a Spanish poet who was born in Seville. Aleixandre received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977 "for a creative poetic writing which illuminates man's condition in the cosmos and in present-day society, at the same time representing the great renewal of the traditions of Spanish poetry between the wars". He was part of the Generation of '27.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses. — © Vicente Aleixandre
Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.
Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.
Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.
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