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"The revolving sky goes stealing his hours of life.... But I don't know," said Don Alonso, "perhaps like you, this Spain of ours makes ground sleeping as well as awake. What does a day matter? The driver snores but the good mules jog on down the appointed road."

Dos Passos, John. Rosinante to the Road Again . Kindle Edition.

"On the top step Telemachus found a man sitting with his head in his hands moaning "¡Ay de mí!" over and over again."

Dos Passos, John. Rosinante to the Road Again . Kindle Edition.

"To see the gesture by daylight!" cried Lyaeus jeeringly. Then he went on: "Tel, you live under the law. Under the law there can be no gestures, only machine movements."

Dos Passos, John. Rosinante to the Road Again . Kindle Edition.

"It is silly to judge any Spanish novelist from the point of view of form. Improvisation is the very soul of Spanish writing."

Dos Passos, John. Rosinante to the Road Again . Kindle Edition.

"This is the core of the individualism that lurks in all Spanish ideas, the conviction that only the individual soul is real."

Dos Passos, John. Rosinante to the Road Again . Kindle Edition.

Where the husbandman's toil and strife Little varies to strife and toil: But the milky kernel of life, With her numbered: corn, wine, fruit, oil!

Dos Passos, John. Rosinante to the Road Again . Kindle Edition.

17 [and last]. Toledo

15. Talk by the Road

13. Talk by the Road.

About Maragall, still in Chapter 12. (note that paperback prints have 200+ pages, not 76 as here)

12. A Catalan Poet

76 pages total, not 114, actually. Chapter 11: Antonio Machado: Poet of Castile

(58/114 pp.)

XI. Antonio Machado: Poet of Castile