Juan Ramón Jiménez
Author of the day

Juan Ramón Jiménez

Juan Ramón Jiménez was a Spanish poet, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1956. His work, profoundly marked by symbolism and the desire for "pure poetry," evolved towards an incessant search for beauty and transcendence. His poetry explores themes such as nature, spirituality, love, and the very essence of poetry, with a refined, musical, and visionary style. He is considered one of the great renovators of 20th-century Spanish poetry.

Poem of the day

Grass

Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work
-I am the grass; I cover all.

And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and the passengers ask the conductor:

What place is this?
Where are we now?

I am the grass.
Let me work.
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