Juan Ramón Jiménez

“Poetry, first, came to me pure, dressed in innocence; and I loved her as a child.”

“Platero is a small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones.”

“Space is a body, and so is time.”

“I am not I. I am this one walking beside me whom I do not see.”

“Love is the universe, with all its stars.”

“My words are the natural signs of my thoughts, and not signs of convention.”

“You have to be a bit of a madman to write a poem.”

“My soul is a transparent landscape.”

“I have always believed that the sky is a cathedral.”

“If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.”

“Intelligence, give me the exact name of things!”

“The poet is a faker who is always truthful.”

“Green was my forest, the roses were my life.”

“What a strange world this is, where the very thing that makes us is the thing that will undo us.”

“The final beauty is not in the thing itself, but in the soul that perceives it.”