A poet with an everlasting work, he used to sing to love and broken hearts as he celebrated loneliness and missed company as well. Jaime Sabines lived every day as it was "the first and the last of the world". He was a living legend and a real popular poet, and as Elena Poniatowska once remarked, "he took poetry to the streets".

Jaime Sabines was born in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas,Mexico, on March 25th 1926. The first son of Julio Sabines, part-Lebanese, and Luz Gutiérrez, born in Chiapas.

It was during high school when Jaime published hist first poems in the school's newspaper. Some of these are in his first book "Horal".