Juan Ramón Jiménez
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Juan Ramón Jiménez (24 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet, who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956.
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- 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 we are standing now, quietly, in the new life?
- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Si os dan papel pautado, escribid por el otro lado.
Si te dan papel pautado, utiliza el otro lado.
- epigraph in Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. Susie Salmon also uses the first line of this quote in The Lovely Bones.
- Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.
- Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.
- They should call a good man an ass and a bad ass a man.
- A permanent state of transition is man’s most noble condition.
