“Never had people written worse in Spain than they did ten years ago.”

Original: Nunca se había escrito peor en España que hace diez años. — A deliberately severe judgement on the literary style preceding modernism · Survey on Modernism, El Nuevo Mercurio, 1907 (Spanish)

• Criticism
• Literature
• Style

“La poesía es el arte de hacer versos.”

A concise definition of poetry as a crafted artistic practice · Essay / literary criticism

• Art
• Poetry

“My source of inspiration is reality. But an integral reality: the outer world and the inner world, what is seen and what is imagined.”

Original: Mi fuente de inspiración es la realidad. Pero una realidad integral del mundo exterior y del mundo interior. De lo visto y lo imaginado. — Defining inspiration as a union of observation and imagination · Confesiones literarias, Cuadernos de Poesía, 1941 (Spanish)

• Creativity
• Experience
• Imagination