Quotes by Juan Ramón Jiménez

“That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work....when death--black waves!--no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it.””

“I have a feeling that my boathas struck, down there in the depths,against a great thing. And nothinghappens! Nothing...Silence...Waves... --Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?””

“Silence which in breaking up at dawnwill speak differently.””

“Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.””

“Naked poetry, always mine,that I have loved my whole life!””

“En la soledad no se encuentra más que lo que a la soledad se lleva.””

“--False joy, because you are merely in time, as they say, and not in the soul!””

“Si te dan papel rayado, escribe de traves""Bila mereka memberimu kertas bergaris, tulis di sebaliknya””

“Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle about the sky.””

“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.””

“yo no soy yosoy esteque va a mi lado sin yo verlo; que, a veces, voy a ver, y que, a veces, olvido. El que calla, sereno, cuando hablo, el que perdona, dulce, cuando odio, el que pasea por donde no estoy, el que quedará en pié cuando yo muera.””