Juan Ramon Jimenez
Juan Ramon Jimenez
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecónwas a Spanish poet, a prolific writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956 "for his lyrical poetry, which in the Spanish language constitutes an example of high spirit and artistical purity". One of Jiménez's most important contributions to modern poetry was his advocacy of the French concept of "pure poetry."...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 December 1881
CountrySpain
stars moon sky
Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!
two silence weapons
My only two weapons: time and silence.
writing long answers
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.
paradise would-be fantasy
A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.
country character rights
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.
nostalgia infinite terrible
Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
technology thinking views
Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism.