Ruben Dario Quotes


You think that life is fire, that progress is eruption, that wherever you shoot you hit the future. No.


Context

“Roosevelt” was President Theodore Roosevelt who had just supported a revolution in Panama with warships and then “negotiated” for the Panama Canal with the new government.


Citations

Ruben Darío, 1867-1916, Nicaraguan Poet, Poem: To Roosevelt

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Ruben Dario
Ruben Dario
  • Born: January 18, 1867
  • Died: February 6, 1916
  • Nationality: Nicaraguan
  • Profession: Poet, Journalist, Diplomat Writer

Félix Rubén García Sarmiento, known as Rubén Darío (US: /dɑːˈriːoʊ/ dah-REE-oh, Spanish: [ruˈβen daˈɾi.o]), was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo (modernism) that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío has had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism. He has been praised as the "Prince of Castilian Letters" and undisputed father of the modernismo literary movement.