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Quotes from Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) — Rubén Darío

1867–1916 Nicaragua

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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)

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.