Ruben Dario famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You are a Universe of Universes And your Soul a source of Songs...
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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.
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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.
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Sweet as sweetest Grecian honey will my song be when I sing, O Beloved, in the season of the Spring!
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I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.
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Pity for him who one day looks uponhis inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.
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Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death
-- Ruben Dario
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
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Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
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Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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I held his gaze. I could see the storm in his eyes. I knew he was confused. I could see the fear. Then there was the love. I saw it. The fierceness in his eyes. I believed it. I could see it clearly. But it was too late now. The love wasn't enough. Everyone always said that love was enough. It wasn't. Not when your soul was shattered.
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When a soul is created, so is its mate. In every lifetime those souls find each other. They complete the other's destiny.
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We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
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It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.
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I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and a sparing economy is itself a great national source.
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