Pedro Calderón de la Barca
13 quotes
Biography
"When love is not madness it is not love."
"In this treacherous worldNothing is the truth nor a lie.Everything depends on the colorOf the crystal through which one sees it"
"Absence is the death of love."
"Like most Spanish dramatists, Calderón wrote too much and too speedily, and he was too often content to recast the productions of his predecessors....It would be easy to add other examples of Calderón's lax methods, but it is simple justice to point out that he committed no offence against the prevailing code of literary morality. Many of his contemporaries plagiarized with equal audacity, but with far less success."
"Calderón had the good fortune to be printed in a fairly correct and readable edition, thanks to the enlightened zeal of his admirer, Juan de Vera Tassis y Villaroel, and owing to this happy accident he came to be regarded generally as the first of Spanish dramatists. The publication of the plays of Lope de Vega and of Tirso de Molina has affected the critical estimate of Calderón's work; he is seen to be inferior to Lope de Vega in creative power, and inferior to Tirso de Molina in variety of conception. But, setting aside the extravagances of his admirers, he is admittedly an exquisite poet, an expert in the dramatic form, and a typical representative of the devout, chivalrous, patriotic and artificial society in which he moved."
"Craufurd Tait Ramage (ed.) Beautiful Thoughts from German and Spanish Authors, rev. ed. (Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1880) <!-- pp. 465–491 -->"
"T. B. Harbottle and Martin Hume (eds.) Dictionary of Quotations — Spanish (London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co; New York: The Macmilan Co, 1907) <!-- pp. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 30, 32, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 47, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 60, 61, 63, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 80, 83, 85, 87, 90, 91, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 104, 108, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 119, 120, 121, 122, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135, 137, 139, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 155, 157, 160, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 173, 174, 179, 181, 189, 192, 199, 200, 202, 210, 216, 217, 218, 220, 224, 225, 232, 234, 236, 238, 239, 240, 242, 243, 244, 246, 247, 248, 249, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255, 259, 261, 264, 265, 267, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273, 278, 279, 284, 285, 287, 290, 293, 295, 298, 299, 301, 302, 303, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 317, 318, 320, 321, 324, 325, 327, 328, 330, 331, 337, 339, 342, 344, 348, 349, 351, 352, 358, 359, 360, 363, 364, 368, 369, 371, 377, 379, 380, 382, 383, 384, 385, 386, 387, 391, 392, 394, 395 -->"
"J. M. and M. J. Cohen (eds.) The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations (Penguin Books, 1960) <!-- pp. 94–95 -->"
"Bergen Evans (ed.) Dictionary of Quotations (New York: Delacorte Press, 1968) <!-- p. 409 -->"
"Robert and Mary Collison (eds.) The Dictionary of Foreign Quotations (New York: Facts on File, 1980)"
"Robert Andrews (ed.) The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987)"
"one may know how to gain victory, and know not how to use it"
"Dreams are rough copies of the waking soul Yet uncorrected of the higher will, So that men sometimes in their dreams confessAn unsuspected, or forgotten, self; -Since Dreaming, Madness, Passion, are akinIn missing each that salutory reinOf reason, and the grinding will of man."