The 70 best phrases of Rubén Darío

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known to all under his pseudonym Rubén Darío, was a prominent poet, writer, journalist, and diplomat from Nicaragua. He was nicknamed "prince of Castilian letters" thanks to the representation of him in modernism literature and his writings that would later become one of the greatest influences on poetry in Spanish.

In this collection of The best phrases of Rubén Darío you will find a sample of the personality and genius of this writer; examples of why he is among the greatest representatives of literature in Spanish.

The most memorable Rubén Darío phrases

To learn more about the writings and personal life of this poet, we bring a compilation with the most outstanding quotes and reflections of Rubén Darío.

1. When I want to cry, I do not cry... And sometimes I cry without wanting to.

Emotions are expressed at unexpected and sometimes uncontrollable moments.

2. The book is strength, it is value, it is strength, it is food; torch of thought and spring of love.

Books are a fundamental part of our education.

3. Why would I want life when I don't have youth.

For many people, youth represents the end of what we can do with our lives.

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4. Don't let your enthusiasm turn off, a virtue as valuable as it is necessary; work, aspire, always tend towards the height.

To stand out, you must have your motivation to the maximum.

5. I think that neurosis is always preferable to imbecility.

For every artist, neurosis is an inexhaustible source of inspiration.

6. Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death.

Poetry is an expression of our feelings.

7. You are a universe of universes and your soul a source of songs.

Each person is a unique universe, because we are different.

8. There is no greater pain than the pain of being alive, nor greater sorrow than conscious life.

Knowing that we have limited time creates pressure on us to be efficient quickly.

9. Light produces colors: colors do not turn light on.

All colors come from light and shadow.

10. Well, if you insist on dreaming, you insist on fanning the flame of your life.

Every great achievement began as a dream.

11. Yes, art is blue, but that blue from above that gives off a ray of love to ignite hearts and ennoble thought and engender great and generous actions.

A way to describe love.

12. Between his living eyebrows I saw a star shine. The sky was blue, and I was naked.

A look that reveals everything that the soul hides.

13. The eternal feminine can make the divine human.

On the power of women's actions.

14. Because you revealed to me the secret of divine delights, in the ineffable first moment of love.

A true relationship is the one that shows you the best side of love.

15. I will say that you are more beautiful than the moon; That the treasure of heaven is less rich than the treasure that veils the importunate ivory caress of your fan.

Beauty is in the mind of each person, that's why it is different.

16. The verb can create its own flesh, like the snail its shell: but meat alone will never create the verb, and like the statue it will exist without a soul.

The things we achieve only happen with our hard work, not otherwise.

17. You will have to meditate on this axiom at all times, the science of living is the art of loving.

Without love, life is a void.

18. The princess is sad, what will the princess have? Sighs escape from her strawberry mouth.

Each person has a sadness that they must overcome.

19. The ivory tower tempted my longing; I wanted to lock myself inside myself, and I hungered for space and thirsted for heaven from the shadows of my own abyss.

One of Rubén Darío's phrases in which he talks about introspection; the writer reminds us that it is never a good idea to close in on ourselves.

20. If you cannot abandon the drama or the novel, and your ivory and pink fingers turn and turn one page after another to be devoured by bewitched eyes, ah! then, the author happened to be interesting, which is a great merit and a triumph.

The way in which we know that a book has conquered us.

21. The muse woman is the one of flesh and blood.

The greatest of the muses of creations.

22. The lilacs and roses were of wax, the apples and pears of painted marble, and the grapes of glass. Still life!

We usually go unnoticed the beauty of the fragile nature.

23. It is the gray and sad afternoon. Dress the sea in velvet and the deep sky dresses in mourning.

We usually associate cloudy weather with a feeling of sadness.

24. Hate the mouths that predict eternal misfortunes.

Surround yourself with positive people, they are the ones who will always cheer you up.

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25. Sweet as the sweetest Grecian honey shall my song be when I sing, O beloved, in the season of spring!

Every song is special if it talks about love.

26. Love your rhythm and rhyme your actions; under his law, as well as your verses; you are a universe of universes, and your soul, a source of songs.

If you don't like something, change it, this is not a race, it is a path that you must travel with emotion.

27. Life, light and truth, such a triple flame produces the inner infinite flame; pure art.

The basic elements to create art.

28. I'll tell you the truth: your eyes look like embers behind glass to me.

Intense as they can only be from the person we love.

29. Lamentations and moans, sighs and tears are meanwhile appeased by this horrible palpitation of my heart; ah, this horrible palpitation!

Crying is the way we can release our heaviness.

30. The best muse is the flesh and blood!

Taking inspiration from the people around him.

31. Virtue is in being calm and strong; with the inner fire everything burns.

Calm should not be confused with weakness, in fact it is our greatest strength.

32. Under the sky, resigned, the melancholic waters rest.

The rain as the maximum sign of melancholy.

33. No philosophies, no transcendent purposes, no sensitized, humanized and universalized abstractions. That, I am sure, hurts your delicate eardrums made for music and love.

Sometimes we only listen to what is best for us.

34. If one day justice was alone, all humanity will feel it.

Crimes cannot go unnoticed.

35. And we were alone, in the light of a sweet Argentinian moon, a beautiful moon from the country of Nicaragua!

No matter where we are, there will always be something that makes us long for our land.

36. In an abandoned and sad path that only evil angels walk, a strange Deity the black Night has erected her lonely throne; I got there once...

Isolating ourselves only leads us to feel more displaced and rejected.

37. And not knowing where we are going, or where we came from!

No one can guarantee what awaits us in the future.

38. Being and not knowing anything, and being aimlessly, and the fear of having been and a future terror...

The future brings fear because we do not know what awaits us.

39. You have in the deep memories that in my soul form the highest and sublime, an immortal light.

The memories we share with special people are the most valuable.

40. That your name alone, that of the excellent beauty that you embody, has made stars sprout over the world.

When you are impressed with someone's beauty.

41. Too bad for those who one day look at his inner sphinx and question it. He is lost.

42. The song flies, with its wings: harmony and eternity.

Music is essential for our soul.

43. And in this hesitation of breath and agony, I carry full of sorrows what I can barely bear. Do not you hear the drops of my melancholy?

Melancholy is that state in which we long for some happiness that will never come back.

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44. But your meat is bread, your blood is wine.

Showing his believing side.

45. If reading the book, —or contemplating the canvas and the marble— gives you a feeling of pleasure, or joy; if you involuntarily exclaim, how cute! Rest assured that the work is beautiful and, therefore, poetic.

Poetry lives in every art that makes us feel something.

46. Elegance does not consist in the excess of ornaments, nor in the profusion of jewels.

Elegance is personal confidence that is reflected on the outside.

47. A good book is the best of friends, the same today as always.

A book will never be a waste of time.

48. The word is not in itself more than a sign, or a combination of signs; plus it contains everything by demiurgic virtue.

It's not the words, but the way you say them that makes an impact.

49. And what use are those blue butterfly wings? Those who were born without wings will ask.

Believing is a fundamental part of any successful person.

50. Pity the one who one day looks at her inner sphinx and questions her. He is lost.

The only way to grow is to be at peace with ourselves.

51. We do not know how to explain why the hawk devours the dove, and our ignorance twists against the Creator of Heaven and earth, origin of justice and source of all good.

A reflection on the power or lack of power of God regarding the actions of living beings.

52. Those who rest in sweet peace are not dead, under the cold grave. Dead are those who have a cold soul and still live.

The worst death is the one where you live without enjoying life.

53. Let us do, because it is beautiful, good...

A good deed is done because it makes us better people. Not because we expect something in return.

54. And when the mountain of life is hard and long and high and full of abysses, love the immensity that is ignited with love and burn in the fusion of our very breasts!

A bad moment should not stop you from enjoying life.

55. Youth, divine treasure, you are leaving to never return!

Youth is a state of mind that we carry as long as we want to live.

56. How did you say, my friend? What love is a river? It is not weird. It is certainly a river that, joining the confluent of the detour, is going to get lost in the sea of ​​disappointment.

Love does not always have a fixed course.

57. Letters, like flowers, like fruits, like peoples, often suffer from epidemics that devastate and disfigure them.

Not all stories have a happy ending.

58. Because I feel that up there, in heaven, the angels who speak softly in each other's ears cannot find among their radiant words of love a more fervent expression than that of "mother."

Mother's love will never be compared.

59. Death is life's inseparable sister. Death is the victory of the human progeny.

Death is the best way to know that we have lived.

60. The betrayals of ambition never cease.

Who is greedy stops at nothing and no one, no matter what it costs.

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61. It is the gray and sad afternoon. Dress the sea in velvet and the deep sky dresses in mourning.

When nature combines with our feelings.

62. When man truly loves, his passion penetrates everything and he is capable of piercing the earth.

When we love, we discover a new hidden potential.

63. Let the hurricane move my heart.

Passions are what help us move in the world.

64. The protagonist is the Poet, always the Poet, alone, unknown, abandoned, hungry, almost a beggar, and yet, like Columbus, he carries a world in his head.

It is the poet who has the power to tell his story.

65. If the homeland is small, a big one dreams of it.

Everyone carries a bit of their land in their hearts.

66. If your heart beats faster, if a sigh escapes you, if a tear rolls over the book, if you close it and remain pensive, ah! then, beautiful reader, there is no doubt, a poetic soul has passed through there spilling the penetrating spikenard of his feeling.

The moment you know that a book is an excellent story.

67. Everything we see or seem to us is but a dream within a dream!

Remember that the world is, according to how we interpret our experiences.

68. To be sincere is to be powerful: as naked as it is, the star shines.

Sincerity is what allows us to show ourselves as we are.

69. Blessed is the tree that is barely sensitive, and more so the hard stone, because it no longer feels, since there is no greater pain than the pain of being alive, nor greater sorrow than conscious life.

Do you think it's a benefit to be a little insensitive?

70. And winter came, and the poor man felt cold in his body and in his soul.

Not all people have a place to take refuge.