Juan Ramon Jimenez
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecónwas a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity". One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of "pure poetry."...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 December 1881
CountrySpain
hate forgiving calm
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.
nostalgia infinite terrible
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
paradise would-be fantasy
A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.
love springtime eternal
Love, you are eternal like springtime.
men he-man states
The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.
causes apprenticeship born
To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.
country character rights
Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress.
technology thinking views
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.
two silence weapons
My only two weapons: time and silence.
writing long answers
Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.
stars moon sky
Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!
light infinite ends
…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
mother flower men
The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!
sea land rose
I unpetalled you, like a rose, to see your soul, and I didn't see it. But everything around -horizons of land and of seas-, everything, out to the infinite, was filled with a fragrance, enormous and alive.