The Complete PerfectionistFew have written more memorably about the work of poetry and the poetics of work than Juan Ramn Jimnez, winner of a Nobel Prize and discerning teacher of an entire generation of Spanish poets. In this series of aphorisms, Jimnez brings together the elements of perfect work, both in writing and in other realms. Among these elementsthe wellsprings of any kind of creationare instinct and inspiration, memory and forgetting, silence and noise, love and