Author: José Marti

Cited by

• Pico Iyer (1)
  • IN: Cuba and the Night (1995) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Rapida, como un reflejo, Dos veces vi el alma, dos: Cuando murio el pobre viejo Cuando ella me dijo adios Two times in the flash of an eye, Two times, I have seen the soul: Once when the old man died Once when she said goodbye
    FROM: Simple Verses, (1891), Poem, Cuba
• Stephen Coonts (2)
  • IN: Cuba (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I grow a white rose In July the same as January, For the sincere friend Who gives me his open hand. And for the cruel one who pulls me away from the dreams for which I live, I grow neither weeds nor thistles, I grow the white rose.
    FROM: Translated, (2005), Poem, Cuba
• Patti Sheehy (1)
  • IN: The Boy who Said No (2013) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: We are an army of light And nothing shall prevail against us And in those places where the sun is darkened, it will overcome.
    FROM: The Boy Who Said No: An Escape to Freedom, (2013), Novel, Cuba
• Ana Menendez (1)
  • IN: Adios, Happy Homeland (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Who is the ignoramus who claims that poetry is not indispensable to a people?
    FROM: The Poet Walt Whitman, Selected Writings by Jose Marti, (2002), Book, Cuba
• Kerry Young (1)
  • IN: Gloria (2013) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: A people is not independent once it has shaken off the chains of its masters; it begins to be once it has extirpated from its being the vices of vanquished slavery, and, for homeland and to live anew, rises up and gives form to concepts of life radically opposed to the customs of past servility, to the memories of weakness and adulation that despotic rule uses as elements of domination over the enslaved people.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Cuba