“The poetry is you, I told you, because poetry is feeling, and feeling is woman.”

Original: La poesía eres tú, te he dicho, porque la poesía es el sentimiento, y el sentimiento es la mujer. — Bécquer identifies poetry with feeling rather than with literary technique or formal rules. · Letter I, Cartas literarias a una mujer (Spanish)

• Feeling
• Love
• Poetry

“The logic knows how to forge unassailable arguments which, nevertheless, do not convince. How easily precise conclusions are drawn from a false premise.”

Original: La lógica sabe fraguar razonamientos inatacables que, á pesar de todo, no convencen. ¡Con tanta facilidad se sacan deducciones precisas de una base falsa! — Bécquer warns that flawless reasoning cannot rescue a false starting point. · Letter IV, Cartas literarias a una mujer (Spanish)

• Logic
• Reason
• Truth

“Religion is love, and because it is love, it is poetry.”

Original: La religión es amor, y, porque es amor, es poesía. — The statement completes Bécquer's imaginative equation between spiritual devotion, love and poetry. · Letter IV, Cartas literarias a una mujer (Spanish)

• Love
• Poetry
• Religion