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César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet, writer, playwright, and journalist. Although he published only three books of poetry during his lifetime, he is considered one of the great poetic innovators of the 20th century in any language. He was always a step ahead of literary currents, and each of his books was distinct from the others, and, in its own sense, revolutionary. Thomas Merton called him "the greatest universal poet since Dante". The late British poet, critic and biographer Martin Seymour-Smith, a leading authority on world literature, called Vallejo "the greatest twentieth-century poet in any language." He was a member of the intellectual community called North Group formed in the Peruvian north coastal city of Trujillo.

Clayton Eshleman and José Rubia Barcia's translation of The Complete Posthumous Poetry of César Vallejo won the National Book Award for translation in 1979. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. March 1892 – 15. April 1938
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Famous César Vallejo Quotes

“Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.”

César Vallejo

Los intelectuales son rebeldes, pero no revolucionarios.
Source: Aphorisms (2002), p. 18

“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”

César Vallejo

Las artes (pintura, poesía, etc.) no son solo éstas. Artes son también comer, beber, caminar: todo acto es un arte.
Source: Aphorisms (2002), p. 60

“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.”

César Vallejo

Source: Aphorisms (2002), p. 51

“The pure and poorly adapted one who crashed against the world of fakes and cheats.”

César Vallejo

El puro y desadaptado que choca con el mundo de las farsas y de las apañucias.
Source: Aphorisms (2002), p. 32

“Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.”

César Vallejo

La mecánica es un medio o disciplina para pealizar la vida, pero no es la vida misma. Esa debe llevarnos a la vida misma, que está en el juego de sentimentos o sea en la sensibilidad.
Source: Aphorisms (2002), p. 53

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