Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Rubén Darío
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