Quote by Delmira Agustini: “Love is the wine of existence; whoever has known it deeply has drunk divinity.”

Love at its deepest is not just an emotion — it is a transformation. Like wine that is more than grapes, profound love converts ordinary experience into something sacred. To have loved truly is to have touched something beyond the everyday.

Agustini published Los cálices vacíos in 1913, during the height of Latin American literary modernism and on the eve of World War I. Uruguay was one of the most politically progressive countries in the region, yet women were still denied full literary and sexual self-expression without social censure.

Uruguayan poet considered one of the most daring and original voices in Latin American modernism, whose erotic and mystical verse scandalized and fascinated readers in equal measure. She published her most celebrated collection, El rosario de Eros, in 1924, though she was murdered in 1914 at age twenty-seven.