The Man and the Woman

Man is the greatest of creatures;

Woman is the most sublime of ideals.

Man is the brain;

The woman is the heart.

The brain makes light;

The heart, the LOVE.

Light fruitful, love resuscitates.

Man is strong by reason;

The woman is invencible by the tears.

The reason convinces, tears commove.

Man is capable of all heroism;

The woman, of all martyrdoms.

Heroism ennobles, martyrdom sublime.

Man is a code;

The woman is a gospel.

The code corrects; The gospel perfects.

Man is a temple; The woman is the tabernacle.

Before the temple we discovered;

Before the shrine we kneel.

Man thinks; The woman dreams.

To think is to have a larva in the skull;

Dream is to have, on the forehead, a halo.

The man is an ocean; The woman is a lake.

The ocean has the pearl that adorns;

The lake, the poetry that dazzles.

The man is the eagle that flies;

The woman is the singing nightingale.

Flying is dominating space;

To sing is to conquer the soul.

In short, man is placed where the earth ends;

The woman, where the sky begins.

Vitor hugo