Thought for the Day

All the rose trees

give their perfumes

all the loves

unfold love.

~ Antonio Machado*

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* Quoted from Machado's "Childish Dream", Thomas McGreevy, Translator

Antonio Machado, 1875-1939, Spanish Poet

Antonio Machado: Selected Poems, Alan S. Trueblood, Translator (Harvard University Press, 1988)

Border of a Dream: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado, Willis Barnstone, Translator (Spanish and English; Copper Canyon Press, 2003)

There Is No Road: Proverbs by Antonio Machado, Dennis Maloney and Mary Berg, Translators (White Pine Press, 2003)