Ruben Dario Quotes

#1. 54. The children of the Spanish lion, said Ruben Dario, a born optimist. The children of Walt Whitman, Jose Marti, and Violeta Parra; torn apart, forgotten, in mass graves, at the bottom of the sea, the Trojan destiny of their mingled bones terrifying the survivors.

Roberto Bolano

#2. One of the advantages or disadvantages of the way in which we live in these modern days is that we are ceasing to feel. That is to say we do not permit ourselves to be affected by either death or misfortune, provided these natural calamities leave our own persons unscathed.

Marie Corelli

#3. The tree is happy because it is scarcely sentient;
the hard rock is happier still, it feels nothing:
there is no pain as great as being alive,
no burden heavier than that of conscious life.

Ruben Dario

#4. Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!

Ruben Dario

#5. I can't speak. There are too many negatives. Too many questions...And all the things these hard times have taken from me. All the things I've had to give up.

Except, perhaps, my dreams.

Katherine Longshore

#6. Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.

Ruben Dario

#7. Those of us who decided to work for democracy in Burma made our choice in the conviction that the danger of standing up for basic human rights in a repressive society was preferable to the safety of a quiescent life in servitude

Aung San

#8. What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

Wynton Marsalis

#9. The treacheries of ambition never cease.

Ruben Dario

#10. What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

Jack McDevitt

#11. Religion is life inspired by Heavenly Love; and life is something fresh and cheerful and vigorous.

Lucy Larcom

#12. He was chatting with your Mackenzie. My eyes narrowed. Was this yet another conquest of hers? She went through men faster than I went through sweatpants.

Helen Harper

#13. A choir of seedlings arching their necks out of rotted tree stumps, sucking life out of death. I am the forest's conscience, but remember, the forest eats itself and lives forever.

Barbara Kingsolver

#14. If the cuckoo does not sing, kill it.

Oda Nobunaga

#15. Martin's interest in the movie returned. Rydar pumped, Jax squirmed happily, and Martin added another dollop of Vaseline to his palm.

Marshall Thornton

#16. You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.

Ruben Dario

#17. Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death

Ruben Dario

#18. Sometimes you must seem to hurt something in order to do good for it.

Susan Cooper

#19. Behind them, the white caps of the mountains gleamed like wicked teeth.

Tam Linsey

#20. Hang there like fruit, my soul,
Till the tree die.

William Shakespeare

#21. I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

Ruben Dario

#22. Every crisis, actual or impending, needs to be viewed as an opportunity to bring about profound changes in our society. Going beyond protest organizing, visionary organizing begins by creating images and stories of the future that help us imagine and create alternatives to the existing system.

Grace Lee Boggs