Rubén Darío
9 quotes
“In Spanish, we have a tradition of open”
“From before I knew how to read, my parents had me memorize poems by Ruben Dario, the great Nicaraguan poet who founded the modernist movement that transformed the Spanish language and whose work I recited with pleasure to whoever was naïve enough to ask me to do so. The rhythm of Dario’s poems fascinated me. Often”
“Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost. Pity for Him Who One Day .”
“The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient; the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing: there is no pain as great as being alive, no burden heavier than that of conscious life. Fatalidad (Fatality) .”
“I am not on a bed of roses”
“Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.”
“Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal"”
“Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo, y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente, pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo, ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente. Blessed is the almost insensitive tree, more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel, for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive, and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.”
“I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose. Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems) . I Seek a Form (1896).”