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Rubén Darío Quotes

1867–1916 Nicaragua

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío.

Nicaragua
Poets

Also known as: Darío, Rubén, Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, Ruben Dario

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I seek a form that my style cannot discover,
a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

Pity for him who one day looks upon
his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) (1905)

Blessed is the almost insensitive tree,
more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel,
for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive,
and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.

Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901)

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.

Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) (1905)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rubén Darío (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.