Darío displayed much talent from an early age, even appearing before the President of El Salvador at age 14. His poetry brought back vigor to the stale, monotonous poetry of the time.

"My pick is working deep in the soil of this unknown America, turning out gold and opals and precious stones, an altar, a broken statue. And the Muse divines the meaning of the hieroglyphics. The strange life of a vanished people emerges from the mist of time." --Rubén Darío