The 75 best phrases of Garcilaso de la Vega

Military faithful to his homeland and poet lover of passionate lettersThat was the duality that characterizes Garci Lasso de la Vega, better known as Garcilaso de la Vega. He was raised in the bosom of a noble family, participated in political strategies and fought in battles for King Carlos I of Spain. He unfortunately he was exiled twice, until he took up residence in France, where he later passed away. With this selection of the best reflections of him, we will see his way of understanding the world.

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Garcilaso de la Vega quotes

However, despite his exquisite sonnets, these would not be known until a decade after his death, in a book shared with Boscan entitled: ‘The works of Boscán with some of Garcilaso de la Vega '. Therefore, in this article we will show the best quotes of this poet and military man who deserves to be remembered for his writings.

1. No one can be happy, madam, or unhappy, unless they have looked at you.

The beauty of women unleashes passions.

2. Who would have told me, when the past hours that I have received so much good from you, that you would one day be represented to me with such serious pain?

Love sometimes brings back bad memories.

3. This is the job of men: to tempt evil, and if the event is bad, humbly ask forgiveness of vice.

Asking for forgiveness makes a person greater.

4. The one who was the cause of such damage, by dint of crying, grew towards this tree that watered with tears.

A woman's tears are sacred.

5. Why won't my hard life, in past misery and tears, soften a hardened heart with me?

In life there are very difficult situations that harden the soul.

6. With you, hand in hand, let us look for other meadows and other rivers, other flowery and shady valleys, where I can rest, and I can always see you before my eyes, without fear and fear of losing you.

Walking with the loved one is the best we can do.

7. It is enough to know that this simple and pure friendship wanted my fate in a different species convertilla, in a love so strong and so abundant, and in a non-credible uneasiness, such that I do not know myself of barter.

Friendship can turn into beautiful love.

8. The icy wind will wither the rose; light age will change everything because it does not change its habit.

Longing for the time lived is something very common.

9. Julio, after I left crying from whom my thought never leaves, and I left that part of my soul that was giving life and strength to the body.

Saying goodbye to a loved one is not always easy.

10. And with this fear my tongue tries to reason with you, oh sweet friend, of the bitter memory of that day in which I began as a witness to be able to give, of your soul, new and to know it of you of the soul mine.

Friendship is a unique treasure.

11. Life is short: living everything is missing, dying everything is left over.

We must live every moment that life gives us.

12. I feel the pain diminish little by little, not because being feels simpler, the more the feeling dies, after feeling so crazy.

There are pains that although they diminish, they never end.

13. When I stop to contemplate my state and to see the steps by which it has brought me, I find, according to where I have been lost, that a greater evil could have come.

Looking back often results in something painful.

14. I will finish, that I gave myself without art to who will know how to lose me and finish me, if he wants, and even know how to complain.

Many times we fall in love with the wrong person.

15. And so they remain sad at the door made, by my pain, with that hand that even does not forgive their own breast.

Suffering for love is something we experience at least once in our lives.

16. Love, love, I wore a habit which was cut from your cloth; When dressing wide it was, tighter and narrower when it was on me.

Love has many edges.

17. Go out without duel, tears, running.

Suffering is always present.

18. If any part by chance remains of my reason, I dare not show itself; that in such a contradiction she is not sure.

The reason is sometimes not so wise.

19. Within my soul a sweet love was begotten from me, and from my feeling so approved was the birth of him as of a single desired child.

True love always comes.

20. It does not benefit me to see which I see myself, or very adventurous or very fearful, in so much confusion that I never dare to trust the evil of me that I possess it.

Seeing yourself as you really are is a very difficult task to accomplish.

21. The foundation that my tired life supported is overturned.

Leaving aside what hurts us is very important to continue.

22. My thoughts come back and stir love, it hurts and ignites the fearful soul, and in tears and in ashes I unravel.

Love is a feeling as beautiful as it is hurtful.

23. My life I do not know what it has sustained, if it is not in having been kept so that only in me it would be tested how much a sword cuts in one surrender.

We will always be victorious in all the circumstances that life throws at us.

24. I am dying, and even life I fear; I fear it with reason, because you leave me; that there is no, without you, living for it to be.

Feeling hurt by not being reciprocated is a very deep feeling.

25. I did not enter this love out of delusion, nor did I treat it, like others, with deceit, nor was it by my choice. free will: from my tender and early years to that part my star and that fierce destiny of my damages.

True love comes when we least expect it.

26. The sun spreads the rays of its fire over mountains and valleys, awakening birds and animals and people: which one flies through the clear air, which one goes safely through the green valley or high summit, grazing freely.

Freedom is comparable to the vastness of the sun.

27. Until that eternal dark night I close those eyes that saw you, leaving me with others who see you.

This phrase is a subtle reference to death.

28. If to curb this crazy, impossible, vain, fearful desire, and shelter from such a dangerous evil, which is to make me understand what is not I think, it does not profit me to see which I see myself, or very adventurous or very fearful, in so much confusion that I never dare to trust the evil of me that I have.

Suppressing feelings is almost impossible and even unhealthy.

29. Oh how well it ends in just one day! Oh how many hopes the wind carries!

Evoking good times brings sadness and happiness.

30. Oh blessed, that without anger, without hatred, you are at peace, without blind love, with whom here one dies and is sigh, and in eternal idleness and tranquility you live and will live as long as the souls of divine love ignite the fire!

That person who does not have a bad feeling in his heart and lives full of love and happy with what he has is completely happy.

31. I, because I go without other company, except the one that makes me foolish, her, because the one who came to make her say more than he would take her.

Heartbreak walks with us.

32. What fault do I have of the delirium of my tongue, if I am in so much trouble, that suffering no longer knows me?

When we are sad we can say things that we can later regret.

33. They will not be able to take away the painful feeling, if they do not take my sense first.

We will always feel pain for whatever reason.

34. Oh jealous fear! Who do you look like That envy, your own fierce mother, is scared to see the monster that has given birth!

Fear is a feeling that we have by our side.

35. So, apply your senses to the bass for a while. They are like my rude panpipe, unworthy of reaching your ears.

You have to close your ears to foolish words.

36. For a while my hope rises: but, tired of having gotten up, it falls again, which leaves, badly enough, the place free to mistrust.

Hope must never be lost.

37. Through rough roads I have come to parts that I do not move out of fear; and if to move to take a step I try, and there by the hair I am tornado.

Fear can paralyze us, but we need to move on and move on.

38. I was not born except to love you; my soul has cut you to its size; out of habit of the soul itself I love you.

We are born of love, we are love and we share love.

39. She put her hand in my heart, and from there she took me my sweet garment: that that was her nest and her abode.

When we give our hearts, we truly do.

40. My lady, if I am absent from you in this life and do not die, it seems to me that I offend what I love you, and the good that I enjoyed being present.

Leaving a loved one is very painful.

41. In this difference my senses are, in your absence and in stubbornness, I no longer know what to do to myself in such a size.

Missing a loved one saddens the soul.

42. Do not lose more who has lost so much, enough, love, what has happened to me; I have never tried to defend myself from what you have wanted.

Love has the power to change everything.

43. But I will make this expensive offense cost the offender, since I am healthy, free, desperate and offended.

In the end, the one who offends is the one who ends up with the most damage.

44. Decoration and grace goes naked; More often than not, pure ingenuity and an almost mute tongue, clean witnesses of innocent spirit, are better heard than the curiosity of the eloquent.

There is a time when silence is the right thing to do.

45. How much I have I confess I owe you; I was born for you, for you I have life, for you I must die, and for you I die.

Having someone to love is everyone's dream.

46. Of the dream, if there is any, that part alone, which is the image of death, agrees with the weary soul.

Death is a reality that we will one day reach.

47. It moved me to compassion to see his accident; I said to him, hurt: "Be patient, I am right, and I am absent"

Compassion is a feeling that we must cultivate.

48. I will see hanging by a subtle hair the life of the lover steeped in his error, in sleepy deception, deaf to the voices that warn him of it.

The lover's life is not always rosy.

49. How much of the long sky is desired, how much on earth is sought, everything is in you from part to part.

It refers to how beautiful and big the earth is.

50. It must be the wanting to blame, according to what you do in me, beyond that you will pay for it because they will not know how to know you, no matter how badly you know me.

Wanting is not always reciprocal.

51. From your blond hair, where, my ungrateful one, did Love make the rope for the murderer?

Highlight the beauty of female hair.

52. I am continually bathed in tears, breaking the air always with sighs; and it hurts me more not to dare to tell you that I have reached such a state for you.

Crying shows courage as you let others see your feelings.

53. And if I want to climb to the high summit, at each step scare me on the road, sad examples of those who have fallen.

Feeling pain for the problems of others makes us more human.

54. While the color of your gesture is shown in pink and lily, and your ardent, honest gaze ignites the heart and restrains it.

It is a comparison between the beauty of flowers with that of women.

55. Your temple and its walls I have dressed in my wet clothes and adorned, as happens to those who have already escaped free from the storm in which they saw themselves.

Referring to human nudity.

56. Absent, in memory I imagine her; my spirits, thinking they saw it, move and ignite without measure.

Imagination allows you to achieve any dream.

57. The heart disposes of the happiness that its neighbor had, and it restrains her face, and removes death, damage, anger, blood and war from her eyes.

Joy is an emotion that makes life happy.

58. But then the memory is offered to me that dark, dark night, which always afflicts this petty soul with the memory of my misfortune.

Fears always come to visit us.

59. More air pollution in just one day took the world from me, and has buried me in you, Parthenope, so far from my land.

Being away from the place where we were born fills us with nostalgia.

60. And I still do not imagine that I have to do this job only in life; but with a dead and cold tongue in my mouth, I intend to move my voice due to you.

Doing what we don't like is very common in life.

61. Thinking that the road was going straight, I ended up in such misfortune that I cannot imagine, even with madness, something of which I am satisfied for a while.

We are on a path that, as we move forward, can be transformed.

62. But fortune, not fed up with my evil, afflicts me, and leads from one job to another; already from the homeland, already from the good it separates me; and my patience in a thousand ways tests.

Life puts us sometimes simple tests, while others are difficult to pass.

63. But no matter how much his strength may prove in me, he will not take my changeable heart; they will never say that fortune removes me from such a commendable study.

Our forces may run out.

64. From that good and excellent sight, spirits come out alive and on fire, and being received by my eyes, they pass me as far as evil is felt.

Passion is part of being human.

65. What I can give you, and what I have given, with reception you I enrich myself.

We should only give what we can.

66. The bad thing is that I have the care in safe from these events, which are hard, and have foundations in all my senses well laid.

Evil is also part of life.

67. That either you will not be able to listen to me with pity, or turned into water here crying, you will be able to slowly console me there.

It refers to how horrible it is to feel hurt.

68. Seeing you present now seems to me in that hard trance of Lucina.

Seeing who we love brings us joy.

69. Where are those clear eyes that carried behind them, as if hanging, my soul wherever they turned?

The eyes are the mirror of the soul.

70. When I come back I am suspicious; I think remedies in my fantasy; and the one I most certainly hope is that day when life and care will end.

Starting over causes fear and fear.

71. That divine voice, with whose sound and accents the angry winds could tame, that now is mute, it seems to me that I hear, that you demanded the crude, inexorable goddess.

The sound of the loved one's voice is music that we want to hear.

72. Free my soul from the narrow rock of it, by the Stygian lake led, celebrating t’irá, and that sound will stop the waters of oblivion.

We are always looking for something to help us forget.

73. I could help myself from any evil to see you, madam, or hopefully, if I could hope for it without losing it.

It refers to the fact that we must help others without expecting anything in return.

74. Your gesture is written in my soul, and how much I wish to write about you; You wrote it alone, I read it so alone, that even I keep myself in this.

The name of the loved one is written on the soul.

75. More often than not, pure ingenuity and an almost mute tongue, clean witnesses of innocent spirit, are better heard than the curiosity of the eloquent.

It is better to listen and be silent than to speak without being correct.