Rubén Darío Quotes

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío , was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío has had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism. He has been praised as the "Prince of Castilian Letters" and undisputed father of the modernismo literary movement. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. January 1867 – 6. February 1916
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Famous Rubén Darío Quotes

“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).

“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.”

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.
Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.

“Pity for him who one day looks upon
his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.”

Pity for Him Who One Day.
Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) (1905)

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