Juan Ramón Jiménez

Te dehojé, como una rosa,para verte tu alma,y no la vi.
Mas todo en torno–horizontes de tierras y de mares–,todo, hasta el infinito,se colmó de una esenciainmensa y viva

I took off petal after petal, as if you were a rose,
in order to see your soul,
and I didn’t see it.

However, everything around
–horizons of fields and oceans–
everything, even what was infinite,
was filled with a perfume,
immense and living.