19+ Juan Ramon Jimenez Quotes (Inspirational, Lyrical And Reflective)

Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet, a Nobel Prize in Literature laureate in 1956. He was a leader of the Spanish literary movement known as the Generation of '98 and is considered one of the greatest Spanish poets of all time. His most famous works include Platero y Yo, Diario de un poeta recién casado, and Poema de Cante Jondo.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Every country should realize that its turn at world domination, domination because its rights coincided more or less with the character or progress of the epoch, must terminate with the change brought about by this progress. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

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

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

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

Rodin picks a mushroom delighted, and shows it to Madame Rodin... "Look," he says excitedly, "and that takes but a single night! In one night all these are made, all these lamellas. That is good work." — Juan Ramon Jimenez

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

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

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth! — Juan Ramon Jimenez

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Love, you are eternal like springtime. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

My only two weapons: time and silence. — Juan Ramon Jimenez

Dynamic ecstasy is absolute romanticism , absolute heroism . And here I return to my point. From my point of view, after the catastrophe which we feel and think is universal, a catastrophe resulting from an excess of useless dynamism of useless progress, of useless realism, of useless technology, after this an unattainable democracy is to be reached through the conception and realization of a new romanticism. — 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 Lessons by Juan Ramon Jimenez

1. Juan Ramon Jimenez taught us that life is a journey of self-discovery and that the beauty of life lies in its simplicity.
2. His work emphasizes the importance of cherishing the moments we have and of living life to its fullest.
3. He encourages us to be mindful of our thoughts and feelings and to appreciate the beauty of the world around us.