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
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.
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.