Ruben Dario Quotes

I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

There are only two things to write about: life and death.

Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.

Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live.

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

Literature is the voice of the human heart.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

Poetry contains almost all you need to know about life.

I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?

love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

Dying is nothing. What's terrible is not to live.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

We have art in order not to die of life.

The first and foremost reality is that suffering and death are not only enemies of life, but a means of reminding us of life's twin realities, love and hate.

Anything that has to deal with our mortality is always going to be interesting to us. Life and death is always going to be something that draws our attention.

Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.

Poetry is the art of understanding what it is to be alive.

There are two things that you have to do in life: You have to die, and you have to live until you die. The rest is up to you.