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.

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.