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Rubén Darío
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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 (1867–1916) first seen 1896 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems). I Seek a Form (1896).
“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.”
Rubén Darío (1867–1916) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
“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 (1867–1916) first seen 1905 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Cantos de Vida y Esperanza (Songs of Life and Hope). A Roosevelt (To Roosevelt) (1905).
“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 (1867–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Pity for him who one day looks upon his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.”
Rubén Darío (1867–1916) said by 1916 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source