40 phrases by poet Cora Coralina that will touch your heart

Heart is land where no one sees.

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I am the earth, I am life. From my clay came first the man. From me came the woman and came the love. Came the tree, came the fountain. The fruit comes and the flower comes.

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I decorated the stone of my grave with green leaves in a symbolism of plant life.

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The friend doesn’t give a hand when we’ve done something wrong, he’s firm by our side, pulls the ear, calls reason!

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Dead… I’ll be a tree, I’ll be a trunk, I’ll be a frond and my roots entwined with the stones of my cradle are the strings that sprout from a lyre.

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That’s why the caboclo says: joy comes from the guts — a full belly, a happy heart. Which is pure truth.

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I was born in rough times. I accepted contradictions, struggles and stones as life lessons and I use them. I learned to live.

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I am that woman to whom time has taught a lot. She taught to love life and not give up the fight, start over in defeat, renounce negative words and thoughts.

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I try to support my own renewed personality every day, plunging into me all that is old and dead.

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Happy is he who transfers what he knows and learns what he teaches.

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Even when everything seems to fall apart, it’s up to me to decide between laughing or crying, going or staying, giving up or fighting; because I discovered, in the uncertain path of life, that the most important thing is to decide.

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If we grow with the hard blows of life, we can also grow with the soft touches on the soul.

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I am that woman who climbed the mountain of life, removing rocks and planting flowers.

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Peripheral, rejected child Your world is the underworld.

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I don’t know if life is too short or too long for us, but I know that nothing we live makes sense if we don’t touch people’s hearts.

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We are all enrolled in the school of life, where time is the master.

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Knowledge is learned from masters and books. Wisdom is learned with life and with the humble.

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What counts in life is not the starting point, but the journey. Walking and sowing, in the end you will have something to reap.

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True courage is going after your dreams even when everyone says it’s impossible.

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I try to bear every day my own renewed personality, falling down inside me, everything that is old and dead.

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Verse of the poem: my city, my life, my feelings, my aesthetics, all the vibrations of my female sensibility have their roots here.

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In the palms of your hands I read the lines of my life.

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It’s just that there’s more ground in my eyes than fatigue in my legs, more hope in my steps than sadness in my shoulders, more road in my heart than fear in my head.

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If we have to wait, let it be to reap the good seed that we sow today in the soil of life. If it’s to sow, then let it be to produce millions of smiles, solidarity and friendship.

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Recreate your life, always, always. Remove stones and plant roses and make candy. Restart.

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I am the hardness of these coated, flowered, axe-chipped, lacerated, lacerated hills. Burned by fire Grazed, scorched and reborn.

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Poet is not only what he writes. He is the one who feels poetry, is ecstatic, sensitive to the finding of a rhyme and the authenticity of a verse.

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More hope in my steps than sadness on my shoulders.

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I believe in young people looking for new paths opening wide spaces in life. I believe in overcoming the uncertainties of this end of the century.

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He does not die who left the melody of his song on earth in the music of his verses.

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While we cannot add days to your life, we can add life to your days.

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Verses… no. Poetry… no. A different way of telling old stories.

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Crossed, sinuous lines, interfering with your destiny. I didn’t look for you, you didn’t look for me – we were alone on different roads.

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I learned that it is better to fight than to collect easy money. Better to believe than to doubt.

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Don’t regret what you could have and got lost in the wrong ways and never came back.

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I wanted to be a gardener of a heart one day. I dug, I planted. In the ungrateful land I created nothing.

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I strive to be better every day, because kindness is also learned.

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Better than the creature, the creator made the creation. The creature is limited. Time, space, norms and customs. Errors and successes. Creation is unlimited. Exceeds time and means. Project yourself into the cosmos.

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Humanity is renewed in your womb. Raise your children. Do not leave them at daily child care. Daycare is cold, impersonal. Never be a home for you son. He, little one, needs you. Do not disconnect it from your maternal strength.

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