{"id":305,"date":"2021-03-21T18:01:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T18:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/wereadandwelearn\/?p=305"},"modified":"2021-04-11T13:37:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T13:37:09","slug":"asturias-world-capital-of-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/wereadandwelearn\/2021\/03\/21\/asturias-world-capital-of-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Asturias, world capital of poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-307 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/edublog.educastur.es\/wereadandwelearn\/files\/2021\/03\/descarga-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;We don\u00b4t read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering&#8230; these are noble pursuits to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love&#8230; these are what we stay alive for.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/i>(Professor Keating in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aS1esgRV4Rc&amp;index=4&amp;list=PLBqgXZaPedPePgS9lLduXT7AjrRqIQW4x\">Dead Poets\u00b4 Society)<\/a><\/i><i>\u00a0<\/i><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.6.0 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aS1esgRV4Rc\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 0=\"allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;\/iframe\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em>&#8220;To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em>&#8220;We turn not older with the years, but newer every day,&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>(<strong>Emily Dickinson<\/strong>)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">These words about the passage of time offer a point of view in which instead of just aging as the years go by, we live in a constant change. (<span style=\"color: #993366\">Sof\u00eda Gonz\u00e1lez)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em><span style=\"color: #000000\">&#8220;Happiness must be shared if one has a soulmate.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #000000\">(<strong>Lord Byron)<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">Sharing happiness with another person is better. <span style=\"color: #993366\">(Miriam Prendes)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">&#8220;<em>Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind; and therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.&#8221; <\/em>(<strong>Shakespeare)<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>-I<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"> sincerely love this line for the fact that Shakespeare shows that for loving someone you do not have to focus on his appearance. The fact that makes you fall in love with that person is his personality or his way of seeing life&#8221; (<span style=\"color: #993366\">Andrea Rubio)<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em>&#8220;In fortunate moments we seem on the verge of saying what we think we believe; <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em>but even the honest eye will blink,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(<strong>W. H. Auden)<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">Even in our best moments, we, the people, can\u00b4t be honest or be real with us or with our friends&#8221; <span style=\"color: #993366\">(Iker Jim\u00e9nez)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em>&#8220;What can be explained is not poetry.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(<strong>W. B. <\/strong><strong>Yeats)<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">Poetry is something that just simply arises without explanation, a bunch of feelings written on a piece of paper.&#8221; <span style=\"color: #993366\">(Alba Belver)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em>&#8220;Parting is all we need of heaven,<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">\u00a0 and all we need of hell.&#8221; <\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">(<strong>Emily Dickinson<\/strong>)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">This is part of a poem which explores feelings of profound pain after the loss of someone. With these words I feel that I have to take advantage of life and spend more time with my family and friends before it is late. <span style=\"color: #993366\">(Alba Su\u00e1rez)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">&#8220;If in these thoughts my contempt scares me,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><em><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">I think of you happily,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em>and then <\/em><em>my consolation, like a lark on the edge of the day, rises of the dark world.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><\/span>(<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><strong>Shakespeare<\/strong><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">Although the author see defects in him and in his thoughts, when he thinks of that girl, those thoughts disappear. (<span style=\"color: #993366\">Samuel Fern\u00e1ndez)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\"><em>&#8220;Do not gentle into that good night.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>(<strong>Dylan Thomas)<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif\">We don\u00b4t have to trust the night. The night (the sleep of death) is dark and scares us. <span style=\"color: #993366\">(Alba Rodr\u00edguez)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We don\u00b4t read and write poetry because it is cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race, and the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering&#8230; these are noble pursuits to sustain life. 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