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A couple of weeks ago I picked up a book in a used book store that
piqued my interest. It was by someone I had never heard of - Juan
Ramon Jiminez. What caught my interest is that he won the Nobel prize
for literature in 1956. Not surprisingly, there is some fine writing
here. One brief example:

The Water in the Water

I should like my life
To fall into death
Like this tall stream of lovely water,
In the supine water of the morning,
Rippling brilliant, sensual, joyful,
With all of the world dissolved in it
In gay and shining grace.

Juan Ramon Jiminez (trans. by H. R. Hayes)