Juan Ramón Jiménez

“A NOTE TO THOSE GROWNUPS WHO MIGHT READ THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN”

“I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing … Silence … Waves.”

“I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see, whom at times I manage to visit, and whom at other times I forget; who remains calm and silent while I talk, and forgives, gently, when I hate, who walks where I am not, who will remain standing when I die. "I am not I", from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems , chosen and translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), p. 77”

“Si os dan papel pautado, escribid por el otro lado”

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. As quoted in the epigraph in Fahrenheit 451 (1953) by Ray Bradbury ; Susie Salmon also uses this quote in The Lovely Bones , and Daniel Quinn published a book in 2007 with the title If They Give You Lined Paper, Write Sideways”

“Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism. "Heroic Reason", as translated by H. R. Hays, in Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez (1957) edited by Eugenio Florit, p. 231.”

“Poetry and Literature”

“Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely! "Western Moon" in Canción (1935).”

“Nostalgia aguda, infinita, terrible, de lo que tengo. Sharp nostalgia, infinite And terrible, for what I already possess!”