Frasi di Rubén Darío

„Guarda il segno sottile che le dita del vento | fan agitando lo stelo, che si piega | e s'alza in ritmica virtù di movimento | con l'aureo pennello del fior di farina)“

—  Rubén Darío

„Nel suo paese di ferro vive il grande vecchio, | il bel patriarca, santo e sereno, | il corrusco cipiglio, d'olimpico splendore | comanda e conquista con nobile incanto. || La sua anima pare specchio dell'infinito | le sue stanche spalle sono degne di manto, | come arpa scolpita da una vecchia quercia | come nuovo profeta canta il suo canto. || Sacerdote che il divino soffio alimenta | annuncia nel futuro un tempo migliore | dice all'aquila: «Vola», e, «Voga» al marinaio || e «Lavora» al robusto lavoratore, | così va il poeta sulla sua strada | con superbo rostro imperiale!“

—  Rubén Darío

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.

„You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs.“

—  Rubén Darío

„Pity for him who one day looks upon
his inward sphinx and questions it. He is lost.“

—  Rubén Darío

Pity for Him Who One Day.
Los Cisnes y Otros Poemas (The Swans and Other Poems) (1905)

„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.“

—  Rubén Darío

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.“

—  Rubén Darío

Prosas Profanas y Otros Poemas (Profane Hymns and Other Poems). I Seek a Form (1896).

„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.“

—  Rubén Darío

Cantos de Vida y Esperanza (Songs of Life and Hope). A Roosevelt (To Roosevelt) (1905).

„Blessed is the almost insensitive tree,
more blessed is the hard stone that doesn't feel,
for no pain is greater than the pain of being alive,
and no sorrow more intense than conscious life.“

—  Rubén Darío, libro Cantos de vida y esperanza

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.