Quote by Rubén Darío: “To be a poet is to know the beauty of the universe and suffer for it.”

The same sensitivity that lets a poet perceive the world's beauty also makes them acutely vulnerable to its pain. Heightened awareness is not only a gift — it is also a burden. The capacity to be moved is inseparable from the capacity to be wounded.

Darío published Cantos de vida y esperanza in 1905, a collection that marked a new political urgency in his work, responding to US imperialism in Latin America following the Spanish-American War of 1898, which had eliminated Spanish colonial power and accelerated American dominance over the region.

Nicaraguan poet, considered the father of Spanish-language literary modernism, whose influence on poetry in Spanish rivals that of Walt Whitman in English. His collections Azul and Prosas profanas introduced a revolutionary musicality and symbolism to the Spanish language.