“In contrast, inner conviction often persuades, even when the method of reasoning is in the greatest disorder. The accent of faith is so irresistible.”

Original: En cambio, la convicción íntima suele persuadir aunque en el método del raciocinio reine el mayor desorden. ¡Tan irresistible es el acento de la fe! — Bécquer contrasts rational coherence with the persuasive force of deeply felt conviction. · Letter IV, Cartas literarias a una mujer (Spanish)

• Conviction
• Faith
• Reason

“The one who has imagination, how easily they can draw a world out of nothing.”

Original: El que tiene imaginación, con qué facilidad saca de la nada un mundo. — A compact celebration of imagination as a creative power capable of transforming emptiness into an entire world. · Prose remark, commonly attributed (Spanish)

• Creation
• Creativity
• Imagination

“There is a small, material, mechanical part in every work of man, which true, original inspiration scorns in its ardent moments of rapture.”

Original: Hay una parte mecánica, pequeña y material en todas las obras del hombre, que la primitiva, la verdadera inspiración desdeña en sus ardientes momentos de arrebato. — Bécquer distinguishes the mysterious impulse of inspiration from the later mechanical labour of making art. · Letter II, Cartas literarias a una mujer (Spanish)

• Craft
• Creation
• Inspiration