The 20 best phrases of Pedro Salinas (and verses)

Peter Salinas (Madrid 1891 – Boston 1951) he was one of the most acclaimed and remembered Spanish writers of the so-called Generation of '27.

His essays and poetic works were very successful already in his time, and over the years he has done no more than increase the figure of him, worthy of study and analysis in academic and literary circles throughout the speaking world hispanic

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Famous phrases of Pedro Salinas

Exiled to the United States after the Spanish Civil War because of his republicanist approaches, he lived in his own flesh the bitterness of the war and dedicated to this event many of his verses and writings.

In this article we are going to remember this great writer through a compilation of the best phrases of Pedro Salinas.

1. You always live in your actions. With the tips of your fingers you touch the world, you tear out dawns, triumphs, colors, joys: it is your music. Life is what you touch.

A sample of his poetic brilliance.

2. In this light of the poem, everything, from the most nocturnal kiss to the zenithal splendor, everything is much clearer.

Literature always illuminates what monotony silences.

3. Now I love you, as the sea loves its water: from outside, from above, endlessly making storms with it, escapes, shelters, breaks, calms.

A romantic reflection on runaway love.

4. What you are distracts me from what you say.

A beautiful thought that dislocates what we really are with what we verbalize. Since the latter, after all, is only the way we show ourselves abroad.

5. There was no need to search: your dream was my dream.

Sharing desires and longings is the most poetic way of saying I love you.

6. And you were never wrong, more than once, one night when you were infatuated with a shadow, the only one you liked. A shadow seemed. And you wanted to hug her. And it was me.

About sentimental mistakes and their ephemeral nature.

7. You always live in your actions. With the tips of your fingers you touch the world, you tear out dawns, triumphs, colors, joys: it is your music. Life is what you touch.

Portrait of a pure soul.

8. When you chose me -love chose- I came out of the great anonymous of all, out of nowhere.

This verse by Pedro Salinas portrays the warmth that it feels to be loved.

9. And while they go round and round, giving themselves up, fooling each other, your faces, your whims and your kisses, your fickle delights, your quick contacts with the world, having reached the pure, immobile center of yourself, and seeing how you change, and you call it living, in everything, in everything, except in me, where do you you survive.

Beautiful poem free interpretation of each reader.

10. Within man neither hope pushes nor memory holds.

One of those philosophical phrases that has been the subject of debate and analysis by Spanish and foreign writers.

11. I kissed you in the lips. Dense, red. It was such a short kiss, that it lasted longer than a lightning bolt, than a miracle, more. The time after giving it to you I didn't want it at all anymore, she hadn't wanted it at all before.

On the intensity and frugality of a kiss.

12. I don't trust the paper rose, so many times that I made it with my hands. I don't even trust the other true rose, daughter of the sun and seasoning, the fiancee of the wind. From you that I never made you, from you who never made you, I trust you, safe round chance.

Another sample of her poetic and creative virtuosity.

13. Tonight green, red, blue, very fast strange lights cross your eyes. Will it be your soul?

The enjoyment of the present moment is not so much in what happens outside, but in what we feel subjectively.

14. I love you like this, innocent, completely alien, throbbing in what is outside of you, your eyes proclaiming the vivid colored truths of the night.

A phrase by Pedro Salinas that questions a pure and noble love.

15. I know that when I call you among all the people in the world, only you will be you.

Even with a life full of comings and goings, Salinas kept the illusion of a pure and transcendent love.

16. I do not have a prison for you in my being. Your freedom saves you for me. I will release her again, and through the sky, through the sea, through time, I will see how she goes towards her fate. If the fate of her is me, she is waiting for you.

An ode to free love, in a difficult time.

17. Never words, hugs, will tell me that you existed, that you loved me: never. They tell me white sheets, maps, omens, telephones; you do not. And I am hugging you without asking you, afraid that it is not true that you live and love me. And I am hugging you without looking and without touching you. It is not going to be that I discover with questions, with caresses, that immense loneliness of loving you only me.

One of those phrases of heartbreak that can freeze the blood.

18. In the night and the late night, and the love and the transamor, already changed in final horizons, you and I, of ourselves.

Romantic verse that awakens the conscience.

19. Its because I want to get the best you out of you. The one you didn't see and that I see, swimmer for your background, precious.

An incessant search to connect souls. Great reflection by Pedro Salinas.

20. Each perfect kiss separates time, pushes it back, widens the brief world where you can still kiss...

Another of his perfect verses.