Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes

• 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.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Hate, Forgiving, Calm

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• I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Inspirational, Cutting, Each Day

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• If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Inspirational, Writing, Giving

  Espana, 20 Nov. 1920

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• A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Men

  "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramón Jiménez (p. 231), 1957.

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• The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Time, Mean, Desire

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• My only two weapons: time and silence.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Two, Silence, Weapons

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• …Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Light, Infinite, Ends

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• 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.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Sea, Land, Rose

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

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Grace, Culture, Literature

  Selected Writings: "Poetry and Literature", 1941.

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• 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.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Country, Character, Rights

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• Love, you are eternal like springtime.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Love, Springtime, Eternal

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• 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!

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Madre, Flor, Hombres

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• 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.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Causes, Apprenticeship, Born

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• A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Would Be, Paradise, Fantasy

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• El éxtasis dinámico es romanticismo absoluto, heroísmo absoluto. Y aquí vuelvo a mi punto de vista. Desde mi punto de vista, después de la catástrofe que sentimos y pensamos que es universal, una catástrofe resultante de un exceso de dinamismo inútil de progreso inútil, de realismo inútil, de tecnología inútil, después de esto una democracia inalcanzable debe ser alcanzada a través de la concepción y realización de un nuevo romanticismo.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Technology, Thinking, Views

  "Heroic Reason" by Juan Ramon Jimenez (p. 231), 1957.

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• 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.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Men, He Man, States

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• Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Stars, Moon, Sky

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• 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.

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Writing, Long, Answers

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

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Nostalgia, Infinite, Terrible

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• Rodin picks a mushroom delighted, and shows it to Madame Rodin... "Look," he says excitedly, "and that takes but a single night! In one night all these are made, all these lamellas. That is good work."

  Juan Ramón Jiménez

  Night, Mushrooms, Rodin

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