I want to be alone, to read, to work. I want to see my count... - Juan Ramón Jiménez

"I want to be alone, to read, to work. I want to see my country and to get to know the people I have lived among."

Juan Ramón Jiménez Solitude

Poet Spanish 1881–1958

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"Poetry is nothing but healthy madness."

"The eye which looks outward becomes greater than the eye which looks inward."

"I aspire to an intelligence beautiful and clear."

"Life is fleeting, and it is up to me to make it worth living."

"Sometimes being the best means being the loneliest."

"Solitude gives us time to reflect on what matters"

"I'm not good with people, never have been."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."