Top Ten Best Pedro Calderón de la Barca Quotes, Written Works, & Poems
Pedro Calderón de la Barca was a Spanish dramatist & poet.The Top Ten
1 What surprises you,if a dream taught me this wisdom,&if I still fear I may wake..find myself once more confined in prison..if this should not happen,merely to dream it is enough.For this I have come to know..all human happiness finally ceases,like a dream
2 These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night’s arms.
3 Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
4 If you cannot reconcile yourself to the law, remain in the cradle.
5 What is this life? A frenzy, an illusion, A shadow, a delirium, a fiction. The greatest good's but little, and this life Is but a dream, and dreams are only dreams.
6 But whether it be dream or truth, to do well is what matters. If it be truth, for truth's sake. If not, then to gain friends for the time when we awaken.
7 For man's greatest crime is to have been born. [Since man's greatest crime on earth Is the fatal fact of birth.]
8 The treason past, the traitor is no longer needed.
9 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.
10 Love that is not madness is not love.
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