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6 Ruben Dario Quotes

Ruben Dario's page feels like a lyrical meditation on history, art and identity, suited for readers who love deep, dreamy reflections.

Ruben Dario quotes

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

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  2. The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa, the aromatic America of Columbus, Catholic America, Spanish America, the America where noble Cuauhtemoc said: 'I am not on a bed of roses' -our America, trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love: O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls, our America lives. And dreams. And loves. And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.

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  3. 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.

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

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  5. My pick is working deep in the soil of this unknown America, turning out gold and opals and precious stones, an altar, a broken statue. And the Muse divines the meaning of the hieroglyphics. The strange life of a vanished people emerges from the mist of time.

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  6. Si pequena es la patria, uno grande la suena.

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