Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.
…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.
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.
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!
A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.
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.
Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!
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.
