| Leonor Izquierdo | |
| Birth Name: | Leonor Izquierdo Cuevas |
| Birth Date: | 12 June 1894 |
| Birth Place: | Almenar de Soria, Spain |
| Death Place: | Soria, Spain |
| Burial Place: | Soria |
Leonor Izquierdo (12 June 1894 – 1 August 1912) was the muse and wife of the poet Antonio Machado, who met her at the age of thirteen when he was working as a teacher in Soria.
Leonor was the daughter of Isabel Cuevas and Ceferino Izquierdo, sergeant of the Guardia Civil.[1] She was born at Almenar de Soria where her father was based.
Antonio Machado agreed with Isabel Cuevas to marry Leonor.[2] At 10:00 A.M. on 30 July 1909 they married at the Church of Santa María la Mayor in Soria.[3] The couple was living in Paris in 1911. After being diagnosed with advanced tuberculosis, she returned to Soria to get rest and died on 1 August 1912. She was buried there in Cementerio del Espino (Hawthorn Cemetery). Machado wrote a series of poems dealing with the loss of Leonor, but he never returned to Soria after her death.Machado's friend visited her grave to put the next poem by the poet: