#literature in Spanish

[theoptia]

Carmen Laforet, from Nada

Text ID: My chest was heavy with a thousand daydreams and memories.

[feral-ballad]

Rafael Alberti, tr. by Ben Belitt, from An Anthology of Spanish Poetry: From the Beginnings to the Present Day, Including Both Spain and Spanish America; "Paradise Lost"

[Text ID: “Across centuries / and the void of a world, / sleepless, I seek you.”]

[perfectquote]

I hope that you never, not even for one second, become a secondary character in your own story.

spanish teacher

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from The Selected Poems of Federico García Lorca; "In The Garden of Lunar Grapefruit,"

[joy-is-what-it-means]

Some days you have to study in bed as a compromise, because otherwise you wouldn’t study at all.

[thoughtkick]

I hope that you never, not even for one second, become a secondary character in your own story.

spanish teacher

[eirene]

Faust’s vision, 1880

Luis Ricardo Falero

[trogo-auto-egocratico]

"Desde hace dos días lucho con mis ganas de dormir a toda hora. Jamás bebí tanto café, tanto té. Son estos mis pequeños suicidios silenciosos, sin escándalo, sin decir a nadie que no quiero vivir."

Alejandra Pizarnik.

[thehopefulquotes]

I hope that you never, not even for one second, become a secondary character in your own story.

spanish teacher

[lionofchaeronea]

And I, the least of beings, drunk on the vast void littered with stars – semblance, image of mystery -- I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I spun with the stars, my heart loosed its strings in the wind.

Y yo, mínimo ser, ebrio del gran vacío constelado, a semajanza, a imagen del misterio, me sentí parte pura del abismo, rodé con las estrellas, mi corazón se desató en el viento.

--Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

[surqrised]

I hope that you never, not even for one second, become a secondary character in your own story.

spanish teacher

[theoptia]

Carmen Laforet, from Nada

Text ID: You, […] have been my final hope and my final despair.

[feral-ballad]

Rafael Guillén, tr. by Sandy McKinney, from I’m Speaking; “Splintering”

[Text ID: “I love you. / Silt. Bone, tooth, / cheek, melting away, caving in, and I love you.”]

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Another List of "Beautiful" Spanish Words & Phrases

for your next poem/story

Coraje - courage or anger

Cruzar el charco - to cross the ocean

Cuidar - caring

De músico, poeta y loco, todos tenemos un poco - we all have a bit of musician, poet and crazy in us; we’re all a bit crazy

Desvelarse - not being able to sleep, waking up and not going back to sleep

Efímero - ephemeral

El amor todo lo puede - love can do it all; love always finds a way

En boca cerrada no entran moscas - flies don’t enter a closed mouth; you won’t make a mistake if you don’t talk

Encontrar su media naranja - to find your soulmate

Estrenar - to use or wear something for the first time

Etéreo - ethereal

Gentileza - gentleness

Llegar y besar el santo - to arrive and kiss the saint; when you accomplish something at the first attempt

Nacimiento - birth

No hay que ahogarse en un vaso de agua - no need to drown oneself in a glass of water; don’t make a mountain out of a molehill

Palabra - word

Qué bonito es ver la lluvia y no mojarse - how nice it is to see the rain and not get wet; don’t criticize other people for the way they do something unless you’ve done it yourself

Renacer - reborn

Risas - laughter

Ser un cero a la izquierda - to be unimportant, to be invisible

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or send me a link. I would love to read them!

Sources: 1 2 3 ⚜ More: Word Lists

[mournfulroses]

Federico García Lorca, from "3 Tragedies; Blood Wedding, Yerma, Bernarda Alta,"

[trogo-auto-egocratico]

Te quise a pesar de saber que te iba a perder. Que cada día te perdía un poquito más, y yo seguía en el intento de llenarte el alma.

Daniel Glattauer.