Ruben Dario Quotes

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.

I seek a form that my style cannot discover, a bud of thought that wants to be a rose; it is heralded by a kiss that is placed on my lips in the impossible embrace of the Venus de Milo.

If there is poetry in our America, it is in ancient items: in Palenke and Uatlan, in the legendary Indian and in the sensuous and elegant Inca and the great Moctezuma. The rest is yours, democratic Walt Whitman.