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.
Ruben Dario Quotes
If there is poetry in our America, it is in ancient items: in Palenke and Uatlan, in the legendary Indian and in the sensuous and elegant Inca and the great Moctezuma. The rest is yours, democratic Walt Whitman.
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| Birth: | 18th January, 1867 |
| Death: | 6th February, 1916 |
| Nationality: | Nicaraguan |
| Profession: | Journalist, Poet |
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Ruben Dario was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century. Darío has had a great and lasting influence on 20th-century Spanish literature and journalism.
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