Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known to everyone 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 literary modernism and to 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.
1. When I want to cry, I don’t cry…And sometimes I cry without meaning to.
Emotions are expressed at unexpected and sometimes uncontrollable moments.
2. The book is strength, it is courage, it is strength, it is food; torch of thought and spring of love.
Books are a fundamental part of our education.
3. Why will I want life when I have no youth.
For many people, youth represents the end of what we can do with our lives.
4. Don’t let enthusiasm go out, a virtue as valuable as it is necessary; works, aspires, always tends towards height.
To stand out, you must have your motivation at its 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 on light.
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 lively 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.
About 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 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 each person’s mind, that’s why it is different.
16. The word can create its own flesh, like the snail its shell: but the flesh alone will never create the word, and like the statue it will exist without a soul.
The things we achieve only happen through our hard work, not any other way.
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 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 withdraw into ourselves.
20. If you cannot abandon the drama or the novel, and your ivory and pink fingers turn and turn one page after another so that the enchanted eyes can devour them, ah! So, the author managed to be interesting, which is a great merit and a triumph.
The way 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 made of wax, the apples and pears were made of painted marble, and the grapes were made of glass. Still life!
We tend to overlook the beauty of fragile nature.
23. It is the gray and sad afternoon. Dress the sea in velvet and dress the deep sky 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.
25. Sweet as the sweetest Greek honey will be my song 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 her 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 groans, 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 one made of 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.
Rain as the ultimate sign of melancholy.
33. No philosophies, no transcendent purposes, no sensitized, humanized and universalized abstractions. That, I’m 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 of humanity will feel it.
Crimes cannot go unnoticed.
35. And we were alone, in the light of a sweet Argentine moon, a beautiful moon of those from the country of Nicaragua!
No matter where we are, there will always be something that makes us long for our land.
36. On an abandoned and sad path that only bad angels walk, a strange Deity the black Night has erected its lonely throne; I arrived there once…
Isolating ourselves only leads us to feel more displaced and rejected.
37. And not knowing where we are going, or where we come from!
No one can guarantee what awaits us in the future.
38. Being and not knowing anything, and being without a certain direction, and the fear of having been and a future terror…
The future brings fear because we don’t know what awaits us.
39. You have in the deep memories that form the highest and sublime in my soul, an immortal light.
The memories we share with special people are the most valuable.
40. That your name alone, that of the sublime beauty that you incarnate, has made stars spring up over the world.
When you are impressed with someone’s beauty.
41. Pity those who one day look at their 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 hesitancy of breath and agony, I carry full of sorrows what I can barely endure. Do not you hear the drops of my melancholy?
Melancholy is that state in which we long for some happiness that will never return.
45. If reading the book—or contemplating the canvas and the marble—produces a feeling of pleasure or joy in you; If you involuntarily exclaim, how nice! 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 excess of decorations, nor in a profusion of jewelry.
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 in itself nothing more than a sign, or a combination of signs; but it contains everything by the demiurgic virtue.
It’s not the words, but the way you say them that makes an impact.
49. And what good are those blue butterfly wings for us? 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 his inner sphinx and questions it. 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 writhes 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 under the cold grave are not dead. 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 good, because it is beautiful…
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 lit 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 never to return!
Youth is a state of mind that we carry as long as we want to live.
56. How did you say, my friend? That love is a river? It is not weird. It is certainly a river that, joining the confluent of the detour, will be lost in the sea of disappointment.
Love doesn’t always have a fixed direction.
57. Letters, like flowers, like fruits, like people, often suffer 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 sweetly in each other’s ears, cannot find among their radiant words of love a more fervent expression than that of “mother.”
A mother’s love will never be compared.
59. Death is life’s inseparable sister. Death is the victory of human progeny.
Death is the best way to know that we have lived.
60. The betrayals of ambition never cease.
Those who are greedy do not stop at anything and no one, no matter what the cost.
61. It is the gray and sad afternoon. Dress the sea in velvet and dress the deep sky in mourning.
When nature combines with our feelings.
62. When a man truly loves, his passion penetrates everything and is capable of transcending the earth.
When we love, we discover 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 country is small, someone dreams of it big.
Everyone carries a little of their land in their heart.
66. If your heart beats faster, if a sigh escapes you, if a tear rolls on the book, if you close it and remain thoughtful, ah! So, beautiful reader, have no doubt, a poetic soul has passed through there, spilling the penetrating nard of his feeling.
The moment you know a book is a great story.
67. Everything we see or seems to us is nothing 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 even more so the hard stone, because it no longer feels, since there is no pain greater than the pain of being alive, nor greater sorrow than conscious life.
Do you think there’s a benefit in being a little insensitive?
70. And winter came, and the poor man felt cold in his body and soul.
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