He was born in Guantánamo, former Oriente province, in February 18th, 1878. He studied elementary school in his hometown. Between 1895 and 1898 he lived in Barcelona, sent there by his family in order to carry on studies. In 1900 was appointed internal assistant of a boys school in Guantánamo, and later he became its principal. He worked as auxiliar of administratorship in a sugar mill in Dominican Republic (1902-1904). He laboured teaching in public schools since 1906, when he was declared jobless.
In 1907 was co-founder, del Partido Conservador Nacional, (National Conservative Party) in Guantánamo becoming its president some years later (1920-1922). From 1907 to 1908 he worked as professor in private schools and directed the Municipal Night School. For several years he was in charge of the secretaryship of the Electoral Municipal Board in Guantánamo (1908-1917). In 1911 he graduated as public teacher. In 1913 he got the title of Bachelor and that very year he was President of the Society of Lectures of Guantánamo. He graduted as Doctor in Civil Laws in the University of Havana (1917) and later he received the title of Public Notary (1918). He carried on the la notarial career and became grammar and lierature professor in the Guantánamo High School.
He was appointed delegate to the Second American of Intellectual Cooperation (1941). In 1942 he graduated as Doctor in Philoosophy and Letters in the University of Havana. He directed El Resumen (The Review), and was collaborator in Oriente, El Pensil, Oriente Literario, Renacimiento, El Cubano Libre, Orto, Luz, El Estudiante, Cuba y América, El Tiempo, Cuba Contemporánea, Revista de Avance, Letras, El Fígaro, Bohemia, La Ilustración, Universal, Diario de la Marina, Revista Bimestre Cubana, El Mundo. He was also correspondent member of the Academy of History of Cuba, of the Cuban Academy of Language ad of the Hispano American Academy of Sciences and Arts of Cádiz.
He dedicated to the study of metrics and published unknown works by Rubén Darío. He compiled Cuban popular chants gathered in La lira cubana (4th edition. Guantánamo, La Imperial Publishing House, 1919). Together with José Manuel Poveda and Agustín Acosta he join to the form "el trío" of poets who created the first lyrical renaissance in the Republic.