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Juan Ramón Jiménez
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“Nostalgia aguda, infinita, terrible, de lo que tengo.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1917 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: South", in Poesía, en verso, 1917–1923 (1923), p. 97.
“Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1935 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Western Moon" in Canción (1935).
“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1941 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poetry and Literature" (1941), as translated in Selected Writings (1957).
“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.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heroic Reason", as translated by H. R. Hays, in Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez (1957) edited by Eugenio Florit, p. 231.
“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 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 Sid…
Also quoted by: Ray Bradbury (misattributed)
“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.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I am not I", from Lorca and Jiménez: Selected Poems, chosen and translated by Robert Bly (Boston: Beacon Press, 1973), p. 77
“I have a feeling that my boat has struck, down there in the depths, against a great thing. And nothing happens! Nothing … Silence … Waves. — Nothing happens? Or Has everything happened, and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Oceans", as translated by Robert Bly; quoted in Opening Our Moral Eye : Essays, Talks & Poems Embracing Creativity & Community (1996) by Mary Caroline Richards.
“This short book, where joy and sadness are twins, like the ears of Platero, was written for … I have no idea for whom! … For whomever lyric poets write …”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A NOTE TO THOSE GROWNUPS WHO MIGHT READ THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN", as translated by Antonio T. de Nicolas (1985), p. xv.
“Island of grace, of freshness and of joy, Golden Age of children; always I could find you in my life, a sea of mourning; let your breeze lend me its lyre high and sometimes senseless like the trill of the lark in the white sun of morning. I have never written nor will I ever write anything for children, because I believe the child can read the books that grownups read, with some few exceptions that come to everyone's mind. There are of course exceptions too for men and for women.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A NOTE TO THOSE GROWNUPS WHO MIGHT READ THIS BOOK TO CHILDREN", as translated by Antonio T. de Nicolas (1985), p. xv.
“Platero is a small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black crystal scarabs.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 1 : Platero, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
“He is as loving and tender as a child, but strong and sturdy as a rock. When on Sundays I ride him through the lanes in the outskirts of the town, slow-moving countrymen, dressed in their Sunday clean, watch him a while, speculatively: "He is like steel," they say. Steel, yes. Steel and moon silver at the same time.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 1 : Platero, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
“The man wants to stick his iron pick in the little basket, and I do not prevent him. I open the knapsack, and he sees nothing in it. And the food for the soul passes, candid and free, without paying tribute to the customs.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 2 : White Butterflies, as translated by Eloïse Roach (1957).
“They should call the good man an ass! They should call the bad ass a man! ]]Ironically]] … to speak thus of you, so smart, friend of the old and the young, of the stream and the butterfly, of the sun and the dog, of the flower and the moon, patient and thoughtful, melancholic and lovable, the Marcus Aurelius of the fields…”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) said by 1958 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ch. 55: "Donkeyography" as translated by Antonio T. de Nicolas (1985), p. 66; also translated as "Assography" in translation by Eloïse Roach.
“A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. When we say an artist is in a state of transition, many believe that we are belittling. In my opinion when people speak of an art of transition this indicates a better art and the best that art can give. Transition is a complete present which unites the past and the future in a momentary progressive ecstasy, a progressive eternity, a true eternity of eternities, eternal moments. Progressive ecstasy is above all dynamic; movement is what sustains life and true death is nothing but lack of movement, be the corpse upright or supine. Without movement life is annihilated, within and without, for lack of dynamic cohesion. But the dynamism should be principally of the spirit, of the idea, it should be a moral dynamic ecstasy, dynamic in relation to progress, ecstatic in relation to permanence.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez (1881–1958) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Heroic Reason", as translated by H. R. Hays, in Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez (1957) edited by Eugenio Florit, p. 231.