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

It was the father of this writer who encouraged his son’s taste for reading, and it was he himself who, over the years, recognized that if it were not for him, he would not have been a writer.

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Great sentences by Jaime Sabines

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

1. Poetry occurs as an accident, an outrage, an infatuation, a crime; it occurs daily, alone, when the heart of man begins to think of life.

Any time is good for writing poetry, we just need enough motivation.

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

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

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

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

4. To die is to be silent, to say nothing, to not move, to let others pass, not to breathe… and to be present everywhere in hiding.

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

5. I’m ready for you. You read me like a poem, you express to me everything 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, illuminated, dreaming roses and inventing stars and saying goodbye to you by going to your side.

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

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

When we are between the sheets with our partner, we can watch time stand still.

8. On my lips I know you, I recognize you, and you turn and look tirelessly and all of you sound to me within my heart like my blood.

With just a kiss from our loved one we can 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 lived and perceived in many different ways, even felt.

10. You must 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 validity, to you, present, close, 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 away from that person we love so much.

12. Among the people, next to your people and mine, I said to you “it is already late”, and you knew that I said “I love you”.

The person we love can understand us with gestures that others do not have to 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 lives to the fullest and take advantage 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 aroma that our loved one gives off can seem wonderful to us.

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

We all need our time to be able to clear our heads, it’s 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, as it certainly is to us.

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 make me sick. You hurt me. Murder me, here is my heart and soul, because after this love, I have nothing left.

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

18. What am I doing here? Sometimes you suddenly realize that life is clumsy and empty, and you start laughing.

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

19. Don’t talk to me, if you want, don’t touch me, don’t know me anymore, I don’t exist anymore. I am only the life that harasses you and you are the death that I resist.

There are some people who once we know them in depth, we don’t want to know anything more about them.

20. Oh, Tarumba, you know desire. It pulls you, it drags you, it undoes you. You buzz like a honeycomb. You break 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 infinite number of different situations, a rollercoaster of emotions.

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

Life is a wonderful thing that we should all value and protect.

23. The trees wait: you do not wait, this is the time to live, the only time.

We must make the most of the time we have, time is something that is never recovered.

24. I can be calling you silently until dawn.

Stopping to think about the person we love can be a very complicated thing.

25. I remember you at 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.

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

We tend to be self-conscious in front of the person we love, something we really shouldn’t do.

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

We all need moments of solitude and reflection in order to find ourselves

28. They know that they know themselves profoundly when they awaken alone, naked and embraced.

Without a doubt one of the best experiences we can have in life.

29. The poem is the moment when the thought of life is captured in 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 among us left us valuable memories that we will never forget.

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. Love can be rewarding 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. In spite of being off, detached from you, I will continue to love you for all eternity.

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

36. I’m going somewhere else. And I’m taking my hand, which writes and talks so much.

A really poetic way to say goodbye to someone.

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

In order to transmit our love to a person, words are often unnecessary.

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

Forgetting someone we love can be an arduous task, it can take us years to get over a heartbreak.

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

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

40. Do not tell me where my eyes are, ask where my heart goes.

When a person really catches our attention, we may find it hard to stop looking at them.

41. Love unites bodies.

Indeed, love can result in a very deep connection with someone, both physically and spiritually.

42. Who could love you less than I do, 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 achieve mastery in any art we need time and poetry is no exception.

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

To be able to kiss the person we love can be something very desirable for us.

45. I will 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.

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

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

47. Love, every day. Here by my side, next to me, you’re needed.

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 to us.

49. Our gazes merge into an intense contact.

One look can be enough to express a great deal of emotion.

50. 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 we can have.

51. I realize that you are missing me and that I am looking for you among the people, in the noise, but everything is useless.

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

###¨52. I’m telling you I’m alone and you’re missing me. We lack, love, and we die and we do nothing now but die.

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

53. Poetry is omnipresent, you will see it wherever you travel, in any person, and it will surprise you pleasantly.

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

54. I would kiss you slowly, barely touching my lips, and I would say anything to you 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 to him.

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

When we lose a loved one, their absence can cause us a lot of pain, even feeling that a part of us is dying with that person.

56. Those who love each other 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 ignore and you tell me the things I don’t tell myself.

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

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

No doubt 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 want to start an adventure from my heart to your body.

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

61. For days my heart has wanted to kneel under some caress, a word.

We need our loved one’s attention to be completely happy, if we don’t 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’m not sad, no, but I love you. It’s a different way to suffer.

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

66. Here I am, writing to you. You there, erasing yourself.

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

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

No doubt this phrase describes very well what we all feel when we are in love.

68. Let’s learn to make love like doves. Let us cry like children cry. It’s still time to wake up by the sun.

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

69. Trees sway in the rain so harmoniously that they make one want to be a tree.

A very curious and original wish of Jaime Sabines, did you ever wish you were a tree?

70. End a sigh with 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.