Kevin Rabalais
Jennifer Levasseur
Sacred Trespasses
"I read the way one might stroll. … I feel myself to be a sacred trespasser…"
Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Reclamation: Juan Ramón Jiménez and The Poetics of Work
In our Reclamation series, we discuss writers who deserve renewed attention. In this installment, we marvel at Spanish Nobel laureate Juan Ramón Jiménez's aphorisms.
"To work isn't to do a lot in a hurry or, above all, many times; it is to make unique, very well made things." —Juan Ramón Jiménez, The Complete Perfectionist
Tagged: Juan Ramón Jiménez, Reclamation, The Poetics of Work, The Complete Perfectionist, Christopher Maurer, Sacred Trespasses, Spanish Civil War, Nobel Prize for Literature
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