Juan Ramón Jiménez > Quotes

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Invisible Reality

“I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.”
― Juan Ramon Jimenez

“I unpetalled you, like a rose,
to see your soul,
and I didn't see it.
But everything around
-horizons of land and of seas-,
everything, out to the infinite,
was filled with a fragrance,
enormous and alive.”
― Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Life. This morning the sun made me adore it. It had, behind the dripping pine trees, the oriental brightness, orange and crimson, of a living being, a rose and an apple, in the physical and ideal fusion of a true and daily paradise.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Time and Space: A Poetic Autobiography

“If the poems
please you more than my lips,
I will never give you another kiss.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“And life takes place
inside us, with the eternal light
of an ecstatic day
which is going on somewhere else.

It is a beautiful thing,
something true and not yet real, beautiful!”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“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. ”
― Juan Ramon Jimenez

“You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end. ”
― Juan Ramon Jimenez

“Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour?”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“I have a feeling that my boat
has struck, down there in the depths,
against a great thing.
And nothing
happens! Nothing...Silence...Waves...

--Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“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.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Poet and the Sea

“--Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,
and we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“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.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist

“En la soledad no se encuentra más que lo que a la soledad se lleva.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Naked poetry, always mine,
that I have loved my whole life!”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Silence which in breaking up at dawn
will speak differently.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“--False joy, because you are merely
in time, as they say, and not in the soul!”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Si te dan papel rayado, escribe de traves"

"Bila mereka memberimu kertas bergaris, tulis di sebaliknya”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“yo no soy yo
soy este
que va a mi lado sin yo verlo;
que, a veces, voy a ver,
y que, a veces, olvido.
El que calla, sereno, cuando hablo,
el que perdona, dulce, cuando odio,
el que pasea por donde no estoy,
el que quedará en pié cuando yo muera.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Dusk falls. There is nothing gentle
about the sky.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Time must have covered it over
with roses so
it would not be remembered.

One particular rose,
that has an unexpected magic,
on top of each lonely hour of gold
or shadows,
a place just right to hold painful memories.

So that among the divine
and joyful
climbing roses, scarlet, white,
which would leave no room for the past,
the soul would be
wound into
the body.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Serene last evening,
short as life,
end of all that was loved,
I want to be eternal!”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Secret memories
not on the road
of our other memories!”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Since the lovely morning
of that day, we were sweethearts.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Yo nunca he escrito ni escribiré nada para niños, porque creo que el niño puede leer los libros que lee el hombre, con determinadas excepciones que a todos se le ocurren. También habrá excepciones para hombres y para mujeres.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez, Platero y yo

“Mob of beings and things!
--A true sadness, because you are really deep
in the soul, as they say, not in time at all!”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Lo que más indigna al charlatán es alguien silencioso y digno.”
― Juan Ramón Jiménez