Antonio Machado and Leonor’s Gaze

Antonio Machado is one of the most important poets in our country’s history. Leonor, his wife and muse, was for him joy, life, and happiness—but also wisdom. Not the kind learned from books or schools, but the wisdom of small things, those little details that Antonio turned into poems. Poems so beautiful that, to this day, we remember them verse by verse. Carmen Posadas brings us closer to Machado on the seventieth anniversary of the poet’s death with a moving text that shows us that without love there is no life—and no poetry.