1. Home »
  2. World Poets »
  3. José Martí

I wish to leave the world

by Jose Marti

José Martí

I wish to leave the world
By its natural door;
In my tomb of green leaves
They are to carry me to die.
Do not put me in the dark
To die like a traitor;
I am good, and like a good thing
I will die with my face to the sun




Quotes of the Day

I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
• W. C. Fields


Poems of the Day
  • Raquel Salas Rivera
    when you tie rope and ribbon
    by Raquel Salas Rivera
    for oscar lópez rivera you make two knots so that years and names can climb up or down uniting thick and thin threads simplicities and opacities tense and resolved dialectics your eyes are ...