70 quotes and reflections by Jaime Sabines

We review the most popular phrases and quotes by this Mexican writer.

Jaime Sabines Gutierrez, was a very important Mexican poet and politician born in Chiapas in 1926. Considered as one of the most important Mexican poets of the 20th century, Sabines is a reference that any poetry lover should take into account.

The father of this writer was the one who encouraged his son's love for reading, and he himself was the one who over the years acknowledged that if it had not been for him, he would not have been a writer.

Great quotes by Jaime Sabines

Many of you may already know the work of this famous author, but for those of you who have not been able to enjoy it, we have made a compilation of the 70 best phrases of Jaime Sabines, we have made a compilation of the 70 best phrases and reflections of Jaime Sabines.to get to know some of his most outstanding thoughts.

1. Poetry happens like an accident, a hit-and-run, a falling in love, a crime; it happens daily, alone, when man's Heart starts thinking about life.

Any time is a good time to write poetry, we just need enough motivation.

2. I am sick of you, you are necessary to me like a tremendous vice, indispensable, exact, unbearable.

Our partner is undoubtedly a very great source of inspiration, perhaps one of the greatest we can ever have.

3. I love you at ten o'clock in the morning, and at eleven o'clock, and at twelve o'clock in the day. I love you with all my soul and with all my body, sometimes on rainy afternoons.

Love is something that accompanies us during all the hours of the day, this writer, without a doubt, was a lover.

4. To die is to be silent, to say nothing, not to move, to leave the way to others, not to breathe... and to be present everywhere hidden.

We will always remember those people who, unfortunately, are no longer with us.

5. I am ready for you. You read me like a poem, you express to me all that I do not express.

Our partner will always be the person who knows us most intimately.

6. I love you, love, love absurdly, foolishly, lost, enlightened, dreaming roses and inventing stars and saying goodbye to you by going to your side.

True love is something that is deep inside us and that fills us spiritually.

7. You undress just as if you were alone and suddenly you discover that you are with me. How I love you then between the sheets and the cold!

When we are between the sheets with our partner, we can observe how time stands still.

8. On my lips I know you, I recognize you, and you turn and you are and you look tireless and all you sound inside my heart like my blood.

With just a kiss from our loved one we can get to feel the connection we have with him.

9. You have to hear my love with his voice, touch him in his flesh, accept him as he is, naked and free.

Love can be experienced and perceived in many different ways, even to the touch.

10. Do not behave like a poet, but like a human being. A writer gets angry when you plagiarize his character; but you are left with his freedom.

We must always act as we really are, we must not allow ourselves to be adulterated by others.

11. I need a reality, a currency, you, present, near, to say I love you. My heart is nourished by my eyes, by my hands, by everything I look at and touch. Absence is a deception.

The last thing we want is to be far from that person we love so much.

12. Among the people, next to your people and mine, I told you "it's too late", and you knew I was saying "I love you".

The person we love can come to understand us with gestures that others do not necessarily understand.

13. Someone spoke to me every day of my life in my ear, slowly, slowly. He told me: live, live, live! It was death.

We must live our life to the fullest and make the most of every second we have.

14. With my tongue and my eyes and my hands I know you, you taste of love, of sweet love, of flesh, of sowing, of flower, you smell of love, of you, you smell of salt, you taste of salt, love and me.

Even the scent given off by our loved one can seem to us something wonderful.

15. I just want a week to figure things out. Because this is a lot like walking out of an insane asylum into a pantheon.

We all need our time to be able to clarify our ideas, it is something completely logical.

16. Because you are different from all women, in your body, in your walk, in what you are to my eyes, in what you suggest to my heart.

That special person may seem totally unique to us, because for us she certainly is.

17. It is here in life that I have to find life's remedy. And a good recipe is love and knowing how to look over my shoulder at my own sorrows. You hurt me, you break me down. You hurt me. Murder me, here you have my heart and soul, because after this love, I have nothing left.

Love is a fundamental aspect of our lives, something without which many of us could not live.

18. What am I doing here? Sometimes one suddenly realizes that life is clumsy and empty, and one bursts out laughing.

Life may not please us in many of our ambitions, but it can still be wonderful.

19. Do not speak to me, if you want, do not touch me, do not know me anymore, I no longer exist. I am only the life that harasses you and you are the death that I resist.

There are some people that once we know them in depth, we do not want to know anything more about them.

20. Oh, Tarumba, you already know desire. It pulls you, it drags you, it undoes you. You buzz like a honeycomb. You break a thousand and a thousand times.

In this quote we can see the ease with which Sabines creates poetry, he certainly has a gift for this genre.

21. Love is the perpetual extension, always the next step, the other, the other.

Love can lead us to live an infinity of different situations, a roller coaster of emotions.

22. We should not mourn death, it is better to celebrate life.

Life is something wonderful that we should all value and protect.

23. Trees wait: don't wait, this is the time to live, the only one.

We must take advantage of the time we have, time is something that can never be recovered.

24. I can be calling you silently until dawn.

To stop thinking about the person we love can be very complicated.

25. I remember you every moment, but you are impossible and I am not sad.

Sometimes we have no choice but to accept the designs of the universe and the impossibility of things.

26. Forgive me if I think I offend you, sometimes, when I step on a flower.

We tend to fall into self-consciousness in front of the person we love, it is something we really should not do.

27. Following the prescriptions of the morality in turn. I prescribe time, abstinence, solitude.

We all need moments of solitude and reflection to be able to find ourselves.

28. They know they know themselves deeply when they wake up alone, naked and embraced.

Undoubtedly one of the best experiences we can have in life.

29. The poem is the moment in which the thought of life is captured with the blood.

Poetry is something fundamental in the life of this famous writer, a good part of himself.

30. Do not weep that he died; be glad that he lived.

Those who are no longer with us have left us precious memories that we will never forget.

31. My heart undertakes, from my body to your body, a last journey.

When we fall in love with someone, they will always have a place in our heart.

32. Have you ever seen a gesture of tenderness on the face of a sleeping madman?

Even those people who suffer from madness sleep as peacefully as we all do.

33. I want to eat with you, to be with you, to love with you, to touch you, to see you.

When we truly love someone, we always want to be with that person.

34. Love can be gratifying and touching, but it can also be painful and unbearable.

For love we can suffer a lot, we can lose everything in life for love.

35. Despite being off, detached from you, I will continue to love you for eternity.

Love is something totally timeless, we can love someone for eternity.

36. I am going elsewhere. And I'm taking my hand, which writes and speaks so much.

A really very poetic way to say goodbye to someone.

37. The best words of love are between two people who say nothing to each other.

To transmit our love to a person, words are often superfluous.

38. I hope to be cured of you in a few days. I must stop smoking you, drinking you, thinking about you.

To forget someone we love can be an arduous task, it can take us years to overcome a lack of love.

39. I will repeat your name over and over again until the end of my days.

The name of our loved one is the one we repeat most often in our thoughts.

40. Don't tell me where my eyes are, ask me where my heart is going.

When a person really catches our attention, it can be difficult to stop looking at him or her.

41. Love unites bodies.

Love can indeed result in a very deep connection with someone, physically and spiritually.

42. Who could love you less than me, my love?

The love we can feel for someone can be very great.

43. Every time I feel myself growing in understanding and humility, I feel myself growing in poetry.

To reach mastery in any art we need time and poetry is no exception.

44. Give me now your mouth: I want to eat it with your smile.

To be able to kiss the person we love can be something very much desired by us.

45. I'm going to follow your steps upwards, from your feet to your thigh and your side.

For Sabines his beautiful partner was absolutely everything, he was immersed in the love he felt.

There is no place for the mystic that I am inside the atheist that I represent.

In this quote Jaime Sabines confesses to being an atheist, as perhaps many of us are.

47. Love, every day. Here by my side, next to me, you are missing.

That person we love so much, we need her by our side every day.

48. You are like my house, you are like my death, my love.

Our loved one can be everything for us.

49. Our glances melt in an intense contact.

A glance can be enough to express a great quantity of emotions.

50. Perhaps it is sad to leave... but without leaving there is no coming back.

The reunion with a loved one can be one of the best moments that we can live.

51. I realize that I miss you and that I look for you among the people, in the noise, but everything is useless.

When we are not with the person that we love, everything can remind us of her.

###I tell you that I am alone and that you are missing me. We are missing each other, love, and we are dying and nothing else will we do but die.

The absence of a loved one can leave a great void in us, making us feel incomplete.

53. Poetry is omnipresent, you will see it wherever you travel, in anyone, and you will be pleasantly surprised.

Anything can awaken inspiration in us, wherever we are we can create poetry.

54. I would kiss you slowly, barely brushing my lips against you, and I would tell you anything in a low voice, and I would fall asleep next to you.

A very touching quote from this important poet, his partner was a great inspiration for him.

55. It's not love that kills, it's you, your skin, your lips, your eyes, your soul. It kills me to be me without you.

When we lose a loved one, his absence can hurt us a lot, even feeling that a part of us dies with that person.

56. Those who love each other the most are those who have not finished discovering themselves, those who will never finish.

In the course of life we all change and evolve, we learn new things about ourselves.

57. You hold me in your hands and read me like a book. You know what I don't know and tell me the things I don't tell myself.

Our partner can know us even better than we know ourselves, something unbelievable perhaps but which happens regularly.

58. A piece of moon in your pocket is a better amulet than a rabbit's foot.

Undoubtedly this would be a unique amulet in the world.

59. Writers don't let you copy their style, if anything their freedom.

What all authors share is the freedom to write.

60. I wish to start an adventure from my heart to your body.

In this way Jaime Sabines declares the love he feels for his beloved.

61. My heart for days has wanted to sink under some caress, a word.

We need the attention of our loved one to be completely happy, if we do not have it we may feel that something is missing.

62. You are my home, my life and my misery, I love you.

Our home is where our loved ones are.

63. A poem is the expression of the heart, its truths about life.

A poem allows us to express with great accuracy what our heart feels.

64. Love is the finest silence, the most trembling, the most unbearable.

When we love someone we feel a force within us that invites us to communicate it to that person.

65. Oh, my love, I am not sad, no, but I love you. It is a different way of suffering.

Suffering for love is something Sabines did (as we do) on many occasions.

66. Me here, writing you. You there, erasing you.

When a couple breaks up, it always takes longer for one of the two to get over it.

67. I want to be by your side, sleep with you, caress you, look at you, kiss you.

Undoubtedly this phrase describes very well what we all feel when we are in love.

68. Let's learn to make love like pigeons. Let's cry like children cry. It is still time to dawn by the sun.

We should be more honest with ourselves and know how to accept the emotions we feel.

69. The trees sway in the rain so harmoniously that it makes you want to be a tree.

A very curious and original wish by Jaime Sabines. Have you ever wished to be a tree?

70. End with a sigh the bitter uncertainty of your tears, and once you die, I will die with you.

We all wish to live forever with our partner and if she dies, we die with her.