“be a voice not an echo”

Source: The English Patient

Mi voz me dice: “Así es todo”.
Y el eco de mi voz me dice: “Así eres tú”.
Voces (1943)

Introductory poem.
Poems (1869)
Context: This is a haunted world. It hath no breeze
But is the echo of some voice beloved:
Its pines have human tones; its billows wear
The color and the sparkle of dear eyes.
Its flowers are sweet with touch of tender hands
That once clasped ours. All things are beautiful
Because of something lovelier than themselves,
Which breathes within them, and will never die. —
Haunted,—but not with any spectral gloom;
Earth is suffused, inhabited by heaven.

“Stories,” p. 60
The Sun Watches the Sun (1999), Sequence: “A Stone and a Word”

Source: Froi of the Exiles

No. IV
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)

St. 5
Dejection: An Ode (1802)

Source: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18