Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nobel Prize Winner in Spanish Literature in 1956: «The Poet Is Not a Philosopher, but a Clairvoyant»

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Juan Ramón Jiménez, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature in 1956 and one of the most important figures of Spanish letters, defended a unique vision of poetry. Among his best-known phrases is the phrase “The poet is not a philosopher, but a clairvoyant”, an affirmation that summarizes much of his conception of literature and of the role of the creator. Throughout his career, the Onubian writer sought in poetry a form of knowledge different from rat…