Dicen que a los tres años ya leía, y tenía trece años cuando un periódico le publicó un poema, por eso lo llamaban “el poeta niño”. Su obra fue innovadora y dio inicio a un movimiento internacional: el modernismo. Se le considera el poeta de mayor influencia en el siglo XX en el mundo de habla hispana.
They say that at the age of three he was already reading, and he was only thirteen years old when a newspaper published one of his poems, so they called him “the child poet.” His work was innovative and gave rise to an international literary movement: Modernism. He is considered the most influential poet in the 20th century in the Spanish-speaking world.