Rubén Darío frasi celebri
da Walt Whitman
Origine: Citato in Didier Tisdel Jaén, Homenaje a Walt Whitman, traduzione di Biancamaria Tedeschini Lalli, ed. University of Alabama Press, 1969, p. 12.
Rubén Darío: Frasi in inglese
Fatalidad (Fatality).
Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) (1905)
“I seek a form that my style cannot discover,
a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.”
Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems). I Seek a Form (1896).
Dichoso el árbol, que es apenas sensitivo,
y más la piedra dura porque esa ya no siente,
pues no hay dolor más grande que el dolor de ser vivo,
ni mayor pesadumbre que la vida consciente.
Cantos de vida y esperanza (1901), "Lo fatal" ("Fatalism")
Quoted in Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1997), p. 305.
“Pity for him who one day looks upon
his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.”
Pity for Him Who One Day.
Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) (1905)
Cantos de Vida y Esperanza (Songs of Life and Hope). A Roosevelt (To Roosevelt) (1905).
