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I used the word 'prose' in the Trans-Siberian in the early Latin sense of prosa dictu. Poem seemed to me too pretentious, too narrow. Prose is more open, popular.
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
One hand washes the other.
Other people's things are more pleasing to us, and ours to other people. -Aliena nobis, nostra plus aliis placent
In Latin America in general, and Cuba in particular, poets have been the inspiration behind struggles for independence, struggles for freedom of all sorts.
Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers...
Even one hair has a shadow.
Where there is unity, there is the victory.
Whoever desires is always poor.
It's a bad plan that can't be changed.
The die has been cast.
No writer or speaker who ignores the roots of Latin derivatives is secure from egregious error.
Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.
Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.
The voice of the people is the voice of humbug.
The white man knows what a revolution is. He knows that the Black Revolution is worldwide in scope and in nature. The Black Revolution is sweeping Asia, is sweeping Africa, is rearing its head in Latin America. The Cuban Revolution - that's a revolution. They overturned the system. Revolution is in Asia, revolution is in Africa, and the white man is screaming because he sees revolution in Latin America. How do you think he'll react to you when you learn what a real revolution is?
In fact, eloquence in English will inevitably make use of the Latin element in our vocabulary.
Let the welfare of the people be the ultimate law.
Dr Johnson said, the inscription should have been in Latin, as every thing intended to be universal and permanent, should be.
Birth Control is not contraception indiscriminately and thoughtlessly practiced. It means the release and cultivation of the better racial elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination and eventual extirpation of defective stocks — those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
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