In memory of
Antonio Machado
Spanish poet who died in exile
- Born
- Died
- Lived
- 63 years
- Resting place
- Cemetery of Collioure, Pyrénées-Orientales, France, France
Machado was a schoolmaster who wrote some of the plainest and most quoted lines in Spanish — among them the one about there being no road, the road being made by walking.
In January 1939 he crossed the Pyrenees on foot with half a million others fleeing the end of the war, carrying his mother. They reached Collioure; he died three weeks later, she three days after him. In his coat pocket was a scrap of paper with a single last line about blue days and the sun of childhood.
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