Dulce Maria Loynaz is one of the finest writer of Cuba during the 20th century. She wrote content about love, nature, and her beautiful homeland. She takes her readers to the other world with inspirational words. ‘Verses 1920-1938’, was her first book published in Cuba in 1938, and her continuous novels and poems were published during the 1950s in Spain. She was born on December 10, 1902, in Cuba. She married Pablo Alvarez de Cana, a Society Journalist of Spain, and lived abroad for years, but her heart remained in Cuba. She expressed her isolation from Cuba through her poems.
From the words of Dulce Maria Loynaz, we can feel the heart of emotions on Love, Nature, Solitude, and her Cuba. Let us now get into the world of Dulce by reading a few of her best quotes;
1. “I wouldn’t trade my solitude for a little love. For a lot of love, yes. But a lot of love is itself a kind of solitude.” -Dulce María Loynaz
As she moved from Cuba to Spain after marriage, she felt isolated, yet her mind was full of Cuba. She describes that isolation in a way that she left her beautiful place Cuba for her love (Husband). She states that she did not trade her solitude for a minimal amount of love but a load of love from her husband. So she felt isolated from the real world. But later, she felt that her overflowing love towards her husband itself became her solitude now. She started feeling love and only love and nothing else. Love becomes her whole world and her everything.
2. “I have been cutting my poetry so much that I have reached the pit without tasting the fruit.” -Dulce María Loynaz
Her affection for her husband is so intact. But she is not in fondness with the physical body or mind of her husband but with his soul. She could feel his soul without communicating with his body, mind, or words. She used her intuition to sense him. She felt him as a feeling of emotions. Therefore she used a metaphor to express her feelings through this line.
3. “I never call your name, but you are in me like the song in the nightingale’s throat, even when it’s not singing.” -Dulce María Loynaz
People say that if we practice 100 times, we can win once. If we think of 1000 words, we can speak 100 words. Likewise, the writer’s mind thinks over many phrases, but they can reciprocate only a few. But that does not mean they are not real poets. Because the uniqueness of the poet does not depend on the number of words in the poem, it depends on the impactful words they use.
So, Dulce Maria says that her love for her husband is not based on physical or verbal interaction with another. She felt him inside her body and mind as the soul mingled with each other. If a person fails to express love, it does not mean there is no love.
4. “Only love reveals the beauty of a soul in a rapid flash of light.” -Dulce María Loynaz
No one can feel the vibe until we hit love. Love makes you feel beautiful inside out and makes everything dazzling out there. That will be when you forget yourself and be in a different beautiful world. You enjoy most of the days. Your body feels light, and your eyes see something others drop to see.
You feel shy, and; your heart vibrates at the most speed. You laugh without reason; you feel full without food. You feel energized without sleep. Your mouth utters meaningless words. All these will happen in a few seconds when you feel your love. Love is just as beautiful as it is. Love is the only vibe that makes you feel the beauty of the soul when nothing else can.
5. “If you love me, love me whole
not by zones of light or shadow…
if you love me, love me, black
and white, and gray and green and blond,
and mixed…
love my day,
love me night…
and in the morning with the open window!
If you love me, don’t break me into pieces:
Love me whole… Or do not love me at all.” -Dulce María Loynaz
This is one of the most famous quotes of all. While you read it, you can feel it. According to Dulce, Love is something beyond the stereotypic version of love. She says love is not about character, color, age, knowledge, skills, money, attitude, face, or body. It is beyond everything and can be just a soul, the only purest form of love. Soul has no beginning, no body, no character, no age, no shifts, and nothing but the soul. It is the place where love lies.
The soul cannot be portioned by time or body. It always stays with you when you accept it as it is. So she tells her husband to love her as a whole like magic. She is asking for love and only full of love forgetting who she is, where she is, what she is, and how she is.
6. “I love you with a love that reaches you on the other shore. That dark, unknown shore was, to follow you, my love stumbles forth blindly, bleeding, but always holding you tight.” -Dulce María Loynaz
Maria says that her love is not just about the physical companionship for life. She confirms that if he accepts a person as a whole, he will take her with him wherever he goes. She was not with him as a body but as a soul. Her love did not stop on the shore and said bye. They went all along with her husband and traveled beside him. It was beyond the darkness, the unknown coast, and it followed him. At times, her love stumbled because of blindness, it also bled, but her love never faded, whatever the situation was. Her love holds him tight beyond the circumstances.
7. “I’m happy because it just rained, and the wet earth smells just for me.” -Dulce María Loynaz
The above quote is one of the beautiful quotes about her cute Cuba. She expressed her feelings as she enjoyed the rain, the place, and the atmosphere.
She enjoys as the droplet falls on her face and showers; feels natural, mingles with the atmosphere, and gives herself into it. After the rain, there will always be an earthy smell that feels fresh and authentic. She feels like that smell has been created by nature just for her. She enjoys the whole happenings and feels it from the soul.
8. “You come all flowers & new moon, quick to wrap me in your pent-up tides, in your stormy clouds, in your confused fragrances, which I begin to recognize.” -Dulce María Loynáz
Dulce thought that love was meant to be just beautiful. Of course, it is. But in reality, it is a complicated relationship as well. Love does not just love; it comes with compromises, adjustments, fights, misunderstandings, worries, breakups, and sometimes strangeness and weirdness. She describes her initial stages of love life as beautiful as flowers and the moon, but sooner it becomes complicated with mixed emotions, and she starts realizing it later. She expected her love to be romantic and pure, but it turned out to be confusing and complicated.
9. “You took the lamp, but the light stayed with me. Or something more subtle and tenuous, like the light’s shadow.” -Dulce María Loynaz
As Dulce always believes, love is in the air. She says to her husband, “You can feel it even if you are separated. You can take your body; you can take your words; you can take your presence; you can take your smell; you can take your belongings; you can take everything you want. But your love and soul are always with me.
This love is hard to be broken from any outside substances until I die. This love is the same as my expectations. This love will not cheat me, will not wound me, will not defeat me. This love will be just as I like, very subtle and delicate.”
10. “Even in your way of forgetting, there is something beautiful. I thought all forgetting was darkness, but your forgetting is luminous, like a great radiance. Like the dawn wiping out the stars!” -Dulce María Loynaz
Sometimes our partner doesn’t feel us. They react as if we were not even in their life. They forget us and live on their own, which gives us solitude at those times. We felt alone and shuttered. But Dulce enjoyed the beauty of forgetting, and she wanted the way he behaved with her. She thought her husband was fading with love and forgetting her most time to love. But she accepted the way he was, so she enjoyed how he behaved with her.
As she connected his soul to herself, she did not feel the darkness of the pain. Instead, it felt Luminous, as bright as radiance. She compares her beautiful pain with the metaphor ‘Like the dawn wiping out the stars.’ When we look at the stars at night, we think it is lovely, but when we look at the dawn in the morning, it becomes even more beautiful though the stars are wiped out. Likewise, though her small happiness was out of her life, she started enjoying the beautiful distance.
11. “Everything touched by autumn’s sadness.”
We receive less sunlight as the days grow shorter, which impacts how we feel. Studies have revealed that 10% of people who live in northern areas, where the days are shorter, have some sort of winter depression. Of course, stress and heredity play a role in depression.
12. “My bones ache. The very blouse on my back aches. And my solitude aches, too, ever since you let me press my mouth to it and blow it into flame.”
When you accept the delusion that your pain is constant, suffering results. Your reaction determines the extent of your suffering. You can discover you are more than your suffering by using pain as a gateway to an inner awakening. The most we can say is that those who are able to use the hardship they endure as a catalyst for change in their lives are successful.
13. “I nourished stars, dreams, and souls, never noticing that my own veins were being emptied of their generous blood.”
when we look into the deep world, we have so many things which can give us relief. stars, dreams, souls are so deep and thought giving. Just spend sometime with yourself and you will get to know how how deep thoughts are there inside you.
14. “I’m happy because it just rained and the wet earth smells just for me.”
Rain is water that clouds produce and drops to the ground. It occurs haphazardly throughout the year in the beautiful spring, summer, fall, and winter seasons. In every conceivable aspect, rain holds special meaning for me. There are countless arguments, but only a handful are essential to support my contention. Every time, the smell that you get when you wake up in the morning or when you leave school or work after it has just rained brings back nice memories. Nevertheless, the smell of rain varies from day to day. It smells chilly and like wet leaves in the winter and fall. Summertime odour are simply fresh, moist, and nearly damp.
15. “There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender.”
What makes a person human? It is incredibly easy. The term “human nature” describes the behavioural characteristics that are typical of our species or type. All humans experience change as they mature, and their nature appears to change according to their environment of upbringing.