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Tengo el deber de informarle que Pancho Villa se encuentra en todas partes y en ninguna a la vez.
pancho villa— I have the duty to inform you that Pancho Villa is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.
— A report from an officer in Venustiano Carranza's army, mentioned in the book ¡Vamonos con Pancho Villa! (2007) by Rafael Muñoz.
(Et) io daltro non Tengo fantasia Che uscir de servitù, de povertate; Niuna altra cosa credo al mondo ria.
— Act II (Filoro).
— Translation: And I no other fancy have but this,
To ’scape from servitude and poverty;
Naught else in all the world is bad, I wis.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 327.
Nostalgia aguda, infinita, terrible, de lo que Tengo.
juan ramón jiménez— Sharp nostalgia, infinite
And terrible, for what I already possess!"South", in Poesía, en verso, 1917–1923 (1923), p. 97
"Me gusta el sol, Aliciay las palomas, el buen cigarroy la guitarra española,saltar paredes y abrir las ventanasy cuando llora una mujer.Me gusta el vino tanto como las floresy los conejos pero no los tractores,el pan casero y la voz de Doloresy el mar mojándome los pies,no soy de aqui ni soy de alláno Tengo edad mi porvenir y ser felízes mi color de identidad."
— "I like the sun, Aliceand doves, a good cigar,a spanish guitar, jumping wallsand opening windowsand when a woman cries.I like wine as much as flowersand rabbits but not tractors,homemade bread and Dolores' voiceand the sea wetting my feet.I like to always be lying on the sandor chasing Manuela on a bicycleor all the time to see the starswith Maria in the hayfield.I'm not from here, I'm not from there,I have no age, nor future,and being happy is my color of identity."
(Et) io daltro non Tengo fantasiaChe uscir de servitù, de povertate;Niuna altra cosa credo al mondo ria.
marco guazzo— Act II (Filoro).
— Translation: And I no other fancy have but this,To ’scape from servitude and poverty;Naught else in all the world is bad, I wis.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 327.
Tengo el impuro amor de las ciudades, y a este sol que ilumina las edades prefiero yo del gas las claridades. I have an impure love for cities, and I prefer the light coming from gaslamps rather than this sun that lights the ages.
— 1893 Bustos y rimas,'En el campo' ('In the Countryside').
