Félix Rubén García Sarmiento (January 18, 1867 – February 6, 1916) was a Nicaraguan poet who wrote under the pseudonym of Rubén Darío.

Quotes

• I seek a form that my style cannot discover,
  a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.
  • Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems). I Seek a Form (1896).

• Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo,
  y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente,
  pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo,
  ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente.
  • Blessed is the almost insensitive tree,
    more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel,
    for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive,
    and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.
  • Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
  • Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.

• The America of Moctezuma and Atahualpa,
  the aromatic America of Columbus,
  Catholic America, Spanish America,
  the America where noble Cuauhtémoc said:
  "I am not on a bed of roses" —our America,
  trembling with hurricanes, trembling with Love:
  O men with Saxon eyes and barbarous souls,
  our America lives. And dreams. And loves.
  And it is the daughter of the Sun. Be careful.
  • Cantos de Vida y Esperanza (Songs of Life and Hope). A Roosevelt (To Roosevelt) (1905).

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