In another poem, this man responds to a lover's question "What is poetry?" by asserting that she is, and in another poem, he compares its subject's tears to drops of dew on a violet.  
This author's works include a series of nine religious newspaper letters written while suffering from tuberculosis in a monastery published under the title From My Cell, and he describes the objective nature of poetry and distinguishes between the emotional inspiration and rational composition of poems in his Letters to an Unknown Woman.  One poem by this man compares desire to pursuing shadows of a dream and states "To awaken is to die".  In another poem, this man responds to a lover's question "What is poetry?" by asserting that she is, and in another poem, he compares its subject's tears to drops of dew on a violet.  His major works include the short story collection Leyendas and the poetry collection Rimas.  FTP, name this Spanish poet associated with Romanticism.
This author's works include a series of nine religious newspaper letters written while suffering from tuberculosis in a monastery published under the title From My Cell, and he describes the objective nature of poetry and distinguishes between the emotional inspiration and rational composition of poems in his Letters to an Unknown Woman.  
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer