Rubén Darío Quotes

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I seek a form that my style cannot discover,
a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

Rubén Darío

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.

Rubén Darío

The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,
the aromatic America of Columbus,
Catholic America, Spanish America,
the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said:
"I am not on a bed of roses" —our America,
trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love:
O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls,
our America lives. And dreams. And loves.
And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.

Rubén Darío

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

Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío

Rubén Darío

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Born: January 18, 1867

Died: February 6, 1916 (aged 49)

Bio: 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.

Known for:

Prosas profanas y otros poemas (1896)
Canto Errante (1907)
Stories and Poems/Cuentos y Poesias

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