Ricardo Mena
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | Abogado |
| Location | Fuengirola, Málaga, Spain |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Interests | Pedro Salinas writes (Ensayos de literatura hispánica, Madrid, Gredos, 1966, cited in Ana Suárez Miramón, Luis de Góngora: Poesía, DeBolsillo, 2002, pp. 47-48): “Góngora is a man in love with the real. But he exalts it, he sublimates it in such a way, that the world is turned into a wonderful festival of the imagination and of the senses. That is his attitude ... Poetry of pride. Poetry of exaltation and of adventure. Góngora, as a good Spaniard, is a passionate person. He has the passion of matter, of material reality. He looks at the world with the eyes of sensual love. We talked days ago of the mystic poets. The mystic exalts the forces of the spirit, its powers of penetration into the mystery. And Góngora exalts the forces of matter. And in this sense, Góngora is another mystic, he is the mystic of material reality, as no one has been before him in Spanish poetry nor later.” George Santayana writes (Realms of Being, Charles Scribnerʼs Sons, New York, 1942, p. 16): “[I]t is only a passionate soul that can be truly contemplative. The reward of the lover, which also chastens him, is to discover that in thinking he loved anything of this world he was profoundly mistaken. Everybody strives for possession; that is the animal instinct on which everything hangs; but possession leaves the true lover unsatisfied: his joy is in the character of the thing loved, in the essence it reveals, whether it be here or there, now or then, his or anotherʼs. This essence, which for action was only a signal letting loose a generic animal impulse, to contemplation is the whole object of love, and the sole gain in loving.” |