Only who loves flying. But who loves as the bird that is milder and fugitive? Sinking this hatred is all that ruling would directly traced alive.
Love ... But who loves you? Fly ... But who flies? eager to conquer the blue plumage, but love down always, grief can not find the wings that give some courage.
A being ardent wishes clear, winged, wanted to climb, have the freedom to nest. wanted to forget that man away in chains. Where missing feathers put value and forget.
I was so high at times, it shone on the skin the sky, the bird under the skin. be confused you with a lark one day collapse others like you hail serious.
You know that the lives of others are slabs that tapiarte : prisons to swallow yours. Go life, between bodies, beautiful behind bars. Through the fence, the blood flows freely. Sad
happy instrument wear: tube pressing desire, and breathe fire. Sword devoured by constant use. Body closed horizon which I unfold.
not fly. You can not fly, body vague through these galleries where the air is my knot. For further discussions you ascend shipwrecked. not cry. The field is deserted and silent.
The arms do not flap. Are they a queue that the heart would launch into the sky. Blood saddened to paddle alone. eyes become sad lack of knowledge.
Every city, sleep, wake up mad, exhale silence in prison, sleeping on fire and rain a hoarse elytra can not be a wing. The man lies. The sky rises. The air moves.
In 1920, in Uruguay, Mario Benedetti was born, baptized with his father five names according to Italian customs.
Moved to Montevideo for a family's financial problems, with 8 years entered the German School, where his father removed him the 3 years from the Liceo Miranda the following year to continue in the School of Logosophy Raumsol.
At 14 years, problems economic, went to work at an auto parts company.
Marries His great love, Luz López Alegre in 1946.
Marginalia edits the magazine and published in 48 volumes of essays "travails and novel."
age of 29 involved in the movement against the military treaty with the United States and at the same time gets the prize of the Ministry of Education for his first collection of stories, "This Morning", an award that gets repeatedly until in 58 systematically waiving it for discrepancies in its regulation.
In 1971 he founded the Independent Movement March 26, left-wing group. In 73, after the coup in Uruguay, resigns in college and is forced to leave the country, starting in Buenos Aires and then to Peru, where he was arrested, deported and amnesty.
Golden Flame Award from Amnesty International for his novel "Spring with a broken corner, at 87.
Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Alicante in 97.
Following the departure of his wife, Luz Lopez, in 2006, Benedetti moved to his home in Montevideo, donating part of his personal library in Madrid, the Latin American Studies Center Mario Benedetti of the University of Alicante. . .
NO TE SALVES
not stay still
roadside,
not freeze the joy,
want with no reluctance, no
save yourself now or never, save yourself, do not fill
My heart is waiting, another miracle of spring ... ____________________________________________________________________________
Antonio Machado wrote these verses of hope in 1912 after becoming sick with TB Leonor in their temporary stay in Paris. The doctor advised them to return to Soria, where the fresh air would facilitate their recovery. Despite initial improvement, Leonor deteriorated and died.
"Oh, what death was a broken wire between the two!"
the end of the road from the main square towards the church of Nuestra Señora del Espino, is dry elm singing Machado. Eight days after the death of Leonor, the last of it in Soria, the poet traveled the route with the unbearable memory of his wife.
few meters beyond the elm tree in the cemetery, you can visit the grave of Eleanor . (SOURCE luthieryotuve )
DRY AN ELM
The old elm tree split by lightning and his half rotten with April showers and May sun some green leaves have emerged .
Elm Hill centennial lapping the Duero! yellow moss will stain white crust the trunk decayed and dusty.
will not, which singing poplars guarding the road and the shore, inhabited by brown nightingales. Army ants
row is climbing it, and deep inside hatched gray spider webs.
Before you down, elm del Duero, the woodcutter with his ax, and you become a carpenter mane hood spear car or wagon yoke; before red at home, tomorrow, ardas in some miserable hut, the edge of a road; before uprooting you a whirlwind and broken the breath of the white mountains, before the river to the sea push you through valleys and canyons, elm, I write in my portfolio the grace of your growing green industry. My heart hopes
also to the light and to life, another miracle of spring. . . .