“I do not object to the new; after all, it too will grow old, such is the sadness of life.”

Original: No protesto de lo nuevo, que, al cabo, se hará viejo también, pena de la vida. — Viewing novelty and tradition as stages within the same passage of time · Essay, Por la capa, in La guerra literaria (Spanish)

• Novelty
• Time
• Tradition

“I do not know what unfortunate obsession drove me at that time to bare my soul before the public's consideration, or disregard, which was more likely.”

Original: No sé qué infausta monomanía me acuciaba en aquella época a desnudar mi alma ante la pública consideración o desconsideración, que era más probable. — Looking back ruefully on the exposure of private experience in his earlier writing · Academy address, Semi-poesía y posibilidad, 1938 (Spanish)

• Memory
• Privacy
• Writing

“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