Sublime

there was in the heart a barbaric pity and fear which men have never been able to utter from the beginning, but which is the power behind half the poems of the world. The mood cannot even adequately be suggested, except faintly by this statement that tragedy is the highest expression of the infinite value of human life. Never had I stood so close

perfidy.

No en su palabra ni en su pensamiento veo su grandeza, sino en sus obras, en su vida.

Álvaro de Campos.

Enloquecerá

quixotic

and he will not believe these things. He will not believe them because he has no humility, and therefore no realism. He has never been inside himself; and so could never be inside another man.

mi actitud ha sido tan pasiva, es porque mi exacerbado sometimiento hacia los deberes ha producido desde siempre en mí una carencia de energía que me impide soportar los compromisos.