Juan Ramon Jimenez: Who Knows What is Going On

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Who Knows What is Going On

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by Juan Ramon Jimenez
(1881 - 1958) Timeline

English version by
Robert Bly

Original Language
Spanish

Secular or Eclectic

20th Century

     Who knows what is going on on the other side of each hour?

     How many times the sunrise was
there, behind a mountain!

     How many times the brilliant cloud piling up far off
was already a golden body full of thunder!

     This rose was poison.

     That sword gave life.

     I was thinking of a flowery meadow
at the end of a road,
and found myself in the slough.

     I was thinking of the greatness of what was human,
and found myself in the divine.

-- from The Winged Energy of Delight, Translated by Robert Bly

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Themes

Dawn

Mountain

Rose

Sun

Recommended Books

	Invisible Reality, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio T. De Nicolas
	News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness, Edited by Robert Bly
	Platery y yo / Platero and I, by Juan Ramon Jimenez / Translated by Antonio Frasconi
	Selected Writings of Juan Ramon Jimenez, by Juan Ramon Jimenez
	The Soul is Here for its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures, Edited by Robert Bly

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