Poet's Nook: "Oceans" by Juan Ramon Jimenez

I have a feeling that my boat

has struck, down there in the depths,

against a great thing.

.

And nothing

happens! Nothing... Silence... Waves...

.

-Nothing happens? Or has everything happened,

and are we standing now, quietly, in the new life?

.

~ Juan Ramon Jimenez

(This piece reaches deep....I think everyone can feel what he's trying to convey here. Jimenez himself describes the process of wording the sublimely indescribable: "“Inner poetry eludes words. When one wishes to express something profound, one does not express it in jingles. In my first period I used adjectives, later the adjectives became substantives. Literary artistry is constant suffering for the poet; one doubts the exactness of words, their ability to express what we feel within us. We strive to find that spirited asset, the inner essence.”....Beautiful!!)


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