4 Quotes by Juan Ramón Jiménez about poetry


  • Author Juan Ramón Jiménez
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    One must speak in such a way that although someone else, or many others, or an infinite number of people have said it before, it seems as though you said it first.

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  • Author Juan Ramón Jiménez
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    That day, that day when I can gaze at the sea--both of us calm--and I, trusting, having poured my whole heart into my Life Work....when death--black waves!--no longer courts me and I can smile, constantly, at everything because, my bones, there will be so little of myself left to give it.

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