Jaime Sabines Gutiérrez was a very important Mexican poet and politician born in Chiapas in 1926. Considered one of the most important Mexican poets of the 20th century, Sabines is a reference that any poetry lover should take into account.
This writer’s father was the one who encouraged his son’s love of reading, and he himself was the one who, over the years, recognized that if it weren’t for him he would not have been a writer.
Great phrases by Jaime Sabines
Many of you may already know the work of this famous author, but for all those who have not been able to enjoy him, We have made a compilation of the best phrases and reflections of Jaime Sabines so that you can know some of his most outstanding thoughts.
1. Poetry happens like an accident, an accident, a fall in love, a crime; It happens daily, alone, when the heart of man begins to think about life.
Any time is good to write poetry, we just need enough motivation.
2. I am sick of you because you are necessary to me like a tremendous vice, essential, exact, unbearable.
Our partner is undoubtedly a very great source of inspiration, perhaps one of the greatest we can ever have.
3. I love you at ten in the morning, and at eleven, and at twelve in the day. I love you with all my soul and with all my body, sometimes, on rainy afternoons.
Love is something that accompanies us during all hours of the day, this writer, without a doubt, was a true lover.
4. Dying is being silent, not saying anything, not moving, giving way to others, not breathing… and being present everywhere hidden.
We will always remember those people who, unfortunately, are no longer with us.
5. I am ready for you. You read me like a poem, you express to me everything that I do not express.
Our partner will always be the person who knows us most intimately.
6. I love you, love, love absurdly, foolishly, lost, enlightened, dreaming roses and inventing stars and saying goodbye by going to your side.
True love is something that is deep within us and that fills us spiritually.
7. You undress as if you were alone and suddenly you discover that you are with me. How I love you then between the sheets and the cold!
When we are between the sheets with our partner, we can observe how time stops.
8. On my lips I know you, I recognize you, and you turn and you are and you look tirelessly and all of you sound in my heart like my blood.
With just a kiss from our loved one we can feel the connection we have with them.
9. You have to hear my love with his voice, touch him in his flesh, accept him as he is, naked and free.
Love can be experienced and perceived in many different ways, even feeling it.
10. You don’t have to behave like a poet, but like a human. A writer gets angry when you plagiarize his character; but you have his freedom left.
We must always act as we really are, we must not allow ourselves to be adulterated by others.
11. I need a reality, a validity, you, present, close, to say I love you. My heart is nourished by my eyes, my hands, everything I look at and touch. Absence is a deception.
The last thing we want is to be away from that person we love so much.
12. Among the people, on the side of your people and mine, I have told you “it is too late”, and you knew that I was saying “I love you”.
The person we love can understand us with gestures that others do not have to understand.
13. Someone spoke to me every day about my life in my ear, slowly, slowly. He told me: live, live, live! It was death.
We must live our lives to the fullest and take advantage of every second we have.
14. With my tongue and my eyes and my hands I know you, you taste like love, sweet love, meat, sowing, flower, you smell like love, you, you smell like salt, you taste like salt, love and me.
Even the aroma that our loved one gives off can seem like something wonderful to us.
15. I just want a week to figure things out. Because this is very similar to leaving a madhouse to enter a pantheon.
We all need our time to clarify our ideas, it is something completely logical.
16. Because you are different from all women, in your body, in your walk, in what you are in my eyes, in what you suggest to my heart.
That special person may seem totally unique to us, because it certainly is for us.
17. It is here in life where I have to find life’s remedy. And a good recipe is love and knowing how to look over my shoulder at my own sorrows. You hurt me, you break me down. You hurt me. Murder me, here you have my heart and my soul, because after this love, I have nothing left.
Love is a fundamental aspect of our lives, something that many of us could not live without.
18. What am I doing here? Sometimes you suddenly realize that life is clumsy and empty, and you start laughing.
Life may not please us in many of our ambitions, but it can still be wonderful.
19. Don’t talk to me, if you want, don’t touch me, don’t know me anymore, I no longer exist. I am only the life that harasses you and you are the death that I resist.
There are some people who, once we know them in depth, we don’t want to know anything more about them.
20. Oh, Tarumba, you already know the desire. It pulls you, drags you, undoes you. You hum like a honeycomb. You break a thousand and a thousand times.
In this quote we can see the ease that Sabines has in creating poetry, he undoubtedly has a gift for this genre.
21. Love is perpetual extension, always the next step, the other, the other.
Love can lead us to live an infinite number of different situations, a roller coaster of emotions.
22. There is no need to mourn death, it is better to celebrate life.
Life is something wonderful that we should all value and protect.
23. The trees wait: do not wait, this is the time to live, the only one.
We must take advantage of the time we have, time is something that is never recovered.
24. I can be calling you silently until dawn.
Stopping thinking about the person we love can be very complicated.
25. I remember you every moment, but you are impossible and I am not sad.
Sometimes we have no choice but to accept the designs of the universe and the impossibility of things.
26. Forgive me if I think I offend you, sometimes, when I step on a flower.
We tend to become self-conscious in front of the person we love, it is something we really should not do.
27. Following the current moral prescriptions. I prescribe myself time, abstinence, solitude.
We all need moments of solitude and reflection to find ourselves.
28. They know they know each other deeply when they wake up alone, naked and in each other’s arms.
Without a doubt one of the best experiences we can live in life.
29. The poem is the moment in which the thought of life is captured with blood.
Poetry is something fundamental in the life of this famous writer, a good part of himself.
30. Don’t cry because he died; be glad he lived.
Those who are no longer with us left us valuable memories that we will never forget.
31. My heart undertakes, from my body to your body, one last journey.
When we fall in love with someone, they will always have a space in our heart.
32. Have you seen a gesture of tenderness on the face of a sleeping madman?
Even those people who suffer from madness sleep as peacefully as we do.
33. I want to eat with you, be with you, love with you, I want to touch you, see you.
When we truly love someone, we want to always be with that person.
34. Love can be rewarding and touching, but also painful and unbearable.
For love we can suffer a lot, we can lose everything in life for love.
35. Despite being off, detached from you, I will continue to love you for all eternity.
Love is something totally timeless, we can love someone for all eternity.
36. I’m going somewhere else. And I take my hand, which writes and speaks so much.
A really very poetic way to say goodbye to someone.
37. The best words of love are between two people who don’t say anything to each other.
To convey our love to a person, words are often unnecessary.
38. I hope to be cured of you in a few days. I must stop smoking you, drinking you, thinking about you.
Forgetting someone we love can be an arduous task; it can take us years to overcome heartbreak.
39. I will repeat your name over and over again until the end of my days.
The name of our loved one is the one we repeat the most in our thoughts.
40. Don’t tell me where my eyes are, ask where my heart is going.
When a person really catches our attention, it can be difficult for us to stop looking at them.
41. Love unites bodies.
Indeed, love can result in a very deep connection with someone, physically and spiritually.
42. Who could love you less than me, my love?
The love we can feel for someone can be very great.
43. Every time I feel myself growing in understanding and humility, I feel myself growing in poetry.
To achieve mastery in any art we need time and poetry is no exception.
44. Give me your mouth now: I want to eat it with your smile.
Being able to kiss the person we love can be something we greatly desire.
45. I will follow your steps upward, from your feet to your thigh and your side.
For Sabines, his beautiful partner was absolutely everything, he was immersed in the love he felt.
46. There is no place for the mystic that I am within the atheist that I represent.
In this quote Jaime Sabines confesses to us being an atheist, just like perhaps many of us are.
47. Love, every day. Here next to me, close to me, Miss you.
That person we love so much, we need by our side every day.
48. You are like my house, you are like my death, my love.
Our loved one can be everything to us.
49. Our gazes merge in intense contact.
One look can be enough to express a lot of emotions.
50. Perhaps it is sad to leave… but without leaving there is no returning.
Reuniting with a loved one can be one of the best moments we can experience.
51. I realize that you are missing me and that I look for you among the people, in the noise, but everything is useless.
When we are not with the person we love, everything can remind us of them.
###¨52. I am telling you that I am lonely and missing you. We miss each other, love, and we die and we will do nothing but die.
The absence of a loved one can leave a great void in us, making us feel incomplete.
53. Poetry is omnipresent, you will see it wherever you travel, in anyone, and it will pleasantly surprise you.
Anything can awaken inspiration in us, wherever we are we can create poetry.
54. I would kiss you slowly, barely touching my lips, and I would say anything to you in a low voice, and I would fall asleep next to you.
A very touching quote from this important poet, his partner was a great inspiration for him.
55. It’s not love that kills, it’s you, your skin, your lips, your eyes, your soul. It kills me to be me without you.
When we lose a loved one, their absence can hurt us a lot, even feeling like a part of us dies with that person.
56. Those who love each other the most are those who have not finished discovering themselves, those who will never finish.
As we go through life we all change and evolve, we learn new things about ourselves.
57. You hold me in your hands and read me like a book. You know what I don’t know and you tell me the things I don’t tell myself.
Our partner can know us even better than we know ourselves, perhaps something incredible but it usually happens.
58. A piece of the moon in your pocket is a better amulet than a rabbit’s foot.
Without a doubt this would be a unique amulet in the world.
59. Writers don’t let you copy their style, if anything their freedom.
What all authors share is the freedom to write.
60. I wish to begin an adventure from my heart to your body.
In this way Jaime Sabines declares the love he feels towards his beloved.
61. For days my heart has wanted to kneel under some caress, a word.
We need the attention of our loved one to be completely happy, if we don’t have it we may feel that something is missing.
62. You are my home, my life and my misfortune, I love you.
Our home is where our loved ones are.
63. A poem is the expression of the heart, its truths about life.
A poem allows us to express with great success what our hearts feel.
64. Love is the finest silence, the most trembling, the most unbearable.
When we love someone we feel a force within us that invites us to communicate it to that person.
65. Oh, my love, I’m not sad, no, but I love you. It is a different way of suffering.
Suffering for love is something that Sabines did (as do we) on many occasions.
66. Me here, writing to you. You there, erasing yourself.
When a couple breaks up, one of the two always takes longer to get over it.
67. I want to be by your side, sleep with you, caress you, look at you, kiss you.
Without a doubt this phrase describes very well what we all feel when we are in love.
68. Let’s learn to make love like doves. Let’s cry like children cry. It’s still time to dawn with the sun.
We should be more honest with ourselves and know how to accept the emotions we feel.
69. The trees sway in the rain so harmoniously that they make you want to be a tree.
A very curious and original wish by Jaime Sabines. Have you ever wished you were a tree?
70. End the bitter uncertainty of your tears in one breath, and once you die, I will die with you.
We all want to live forever with our partner and if she dies, we die with her.
71. To die is to withdraw, to step aside, to hide for a moment, to be still, to pass the air from one shore to nothing and to be everywhere in secret.
A truly beautiful verse that invites us to reflect on death.
72. I love God. He is a magnificent old man who doesn’t take himself seriously.
Religion always had great importance in both his personal and professional life.
73. Miss
Some of his verses are true declarations of love.
74. Now scientists come out with their Big Bang theory… But what does it matter if the universe expands endlessly or contracts? That business is only for travel agencies.
With an ironic and sarcastic tone, Sabines spoke in his work about the great themes of life.
75. He has sent us some exceptional guys like Buddha, or Christ, or Muhammad, or my aunt Chofi, to tell us to behave.
Sabines, about God.
76. We were in paradise. Nothing ever happens in the paradise. We didn’t know each other. Eva, get up. I have love, dream, hunger. Did she wake up?
Some of the most important biblical episodes are also related in the work of Sabines.
77. I try to write your name in the dark. I try to write that I love you.
Love and falling in love is one of the main themes in universal poetry.
78. Moon can be taken by the spoonful or as a capsule every two hours. It is good as a hypnotic and sedative and also relieves.
A beautiful metaphor about the moon.
79. You are slender like wheat, fragile like the line of your body. I have never loved a thin woman but you have fallen in love with my hands.
The description of the beloved woman is common in the work of this great poet.
80. Put a tender moon leaf under your pillow and you will see what you want to see.
Some of the scenarios that Sabines presents are truly suggestive.
81. I woke up sad the day you died, Aunt Chofi, but that afternoon I went to the movies and made love.
Even the most serious topics are addressed with a sense of humor.
82. Your back like a plain in the silence and the immobile slope of your side where my kisses tried to rise, as if from a dream.
For the lover, the loved person is always idealized.
83. May when you open your eyes the children will have grown and all things will smile.
Family scenes were important to him, and he regularly included them in his work.
84. I don’t want to praise you as the repentant usually do, because I loved you at your time, in the right place and I know very well what you were, so ordinary, so simple, but I started crying like a girl because you died.
A poem dedicated to his aunt Chofi.
85. The same footprint will remain of us, the seed of the wind in the water, the skeleton of the leaves in the earth.
Sabines dominates all the classic literary figures of universal poetry.
86. The little girl is pregnant. She moves with difficulty, but what a sweet look she looks straight ahead.
The diverse themes he addresses in his work make him one of the most creative authors of his generation.
87. Slow, bitter animal that I am, that I have been, bitter from the knot of dust and water and wind that in the first generation of man asked God.
Religion and man’s relationship with God were also some of his obsessions.
88. Here, there is no woman. I’m missing For days my heart has wanted to kneel under some caress, a word.
Heartbreak also takes place in Sabines’ work.
89. Helpless blood, soft night, insomnia tobacco, sad bed.
Some of the scenarios he describes are truly sad and upsetting.
90. It is necessary to want. I already know. I love her. She is so hard, so warm, so clear! I’m missing tonight.
In his work we find pure and moving love stories.