Antonio Machado

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Antonio Cipriano José María y Francisco de Santa Ana Machado y Ruiz, known as Antonio Machado (26 July 1875 – 22 February 1939), was a Spanish poet and one of the leading figures of the literary movement known as the Generation of '98.

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• Caminante, son tus huellas
  el camino, y nada más;
  caminante, no hay camino,
  se hace camino al andar.
  Al andar se hace camino,
  y al volver la vista atrás
  se ve la senda que nunca
  se ha de volver a pisar.
  Caminante, no hay camino,
  sino estelas en la mar.
  • Wanderer, your footsteps are
    the road, and nothing more;
    wanderer, there is no road,
    the road is made by walking.
    By walking one makes the road,
    and upon glancing behind
    one sees the path
    that never will be trod again.
    Wanderer, there is no road--
    Only wakes upon the sea.
    • "Proverbios y cantares XXIX" [Proverbs and Songs 29], Campos de Castilla (1912); trans. Betty Jean Craige in Selected Poems of Antonio Machado (Louisiana State University Press, 1979)

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