# Rubén Darío's most famous lines

'Youth, divine treasure', the sad princess of 'Sonatina', 'Lo fatal', 'To Margarita Debayle' and 'To Roosevelt': the lines by the father of Modernismo that people know by heart, checked against the text.

- 862 votes · 12 items
- Nov 25, 2021 · Lucía Ortiz
- https://even.best/en/l/4591/ruben-dario-s-most-famous-lines

## Top 12

1. **Youth, divine treasure, you're leaving never to return! When I want to cry, I don't, and sometimes I cry without meaning to…** (85 · ▲93 ▼8) — 'Song of Autumn in Spring', Songs of Life and Hope (1905).
2. **The princess is sad… what can be wrong with the princess? Sighs escape from her strawberry mouth.** (77 · ▲85 ▼8) — 'Sonatina', Profane Prose (1896).
3. **Happy the tree, which barely feels, and happier the hard stone, for it no longer feels at all.** (70 · ▲79 ▼9) — 'Lo fatal', Songs of Life and Hope (1905).
4. **Margarita, the sea is lovely, and the wind carries a subtle scent of orange blossom.** (57 · ▲64 ▼7) — 'To Margarita Debayle' (1908).
5. **And not to know where we are going, nor where we come from!…** (51 · ▲64 ▼13) — 'Lo fatal', last lines.
6. **For there is no greater pain than the pain of being alive, nor heavier burden than conscious life.** (45 · ▲56 ▼11) — 'Lo fatal', Songs of Life and Hope (1905).
7. **You are the United States, you are the future invader of the naive America that has indigenous blood.** (41 · ▲53 ▼12) — 'To Roosevelt', Songs of Life and Hope (1905).
8. **I am the one who only yesterday spoke the blue verse and the profane song.** (40 · ▲57 ▼17) — Songs of Life and Hope (1905), opening poem.
9. **It was a gentle air, of slow turns.** (39 · ▲50 ▼11) — 'Era un aire suave…', Profane Prose (1896).
10. **The procession is coming! The procession is coming! The clear trumpets can be heard.** (38 · ▲46 ▼8) — 'Triumphal March', Songs of Life and Hope (1905).
11. **Beneath the treacherous wing of the light fan.** (31 · ▲47 ▼16) — 'Era un aire suave…', Profane Prose (1896).
12. **From epidemics, from horrible blasphemies, from the Academies, deliver us, Lord.** (26 · ▲37 ▼11) — 'Litany of Our Lord Don Quixote', Songs of Life and Hope (1905).

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