Eternities
I Am Not I
I am not I.
I am this one
walking beside me whom I do not see,
whom at times I manage to visit,
and whom at other times I forget;
who remains calm and silent while I talk,
and forgives, gently, when I hate,
who walks where I am not,
who will remain standing when I die.
Juan Ramón Jiménez Mantecón (23 December 1881 – 29 May 1958) was a Spanish poet.
Juan Ramon Jimenez was born in Moguer, Andalucia.
He was educated in the Jesuit institution of San Luis Gonzaga, in El Puerto de Santa María.
Jiménez studied law and painting at the University of Seville.
He published his first two books at the age of eighteen, in 1900.
Jiménez wrote a poem about a writer and his donkey called Platero and I (1914), which is considered one of his best-known poems.
He became a Professor of Spanish Language and Literature at the University of Puerto Rico.
Among his better known works are Sonetos espirituales 1914–1916 (Spiritual Sonnets, 1914–15, 1916), Piedra y cielo (Stones and Sky, 1919), Poesía, en verso, 1917–1923 (1923), Poesía en prosa y verso (Poetry in Prose and Verse, 1932), Voces de mi copla (Voices of My Song, 1945), and Animal de fondo (Animal at Bottom, 1946).
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