Quotes by Juana Inés de la Cruz

About Juana Inés de la Cruz:

Sister (Spanish: Sor) Juana Inés de la Cruz, O.S.H. is considered today both a Mexican writer and a contributor to the Spanish Golden Age, and she stands at the beginning of the history of Mexican literature in the Spanish language.
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Rosa que al prado, encarnada, te ostentas presuntuosa de grana y carmín bañada: campa lozana y gustosa; pero no, que siendo hermosa tambien serás desdichada.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

privation is the cause of appetite

Juana Inés de la Cruz

O world, why do you wish to persecute me? How do I offend you, when I intend only to fix beauty in my intellect, & never my intellect fix on beauty? I do not set store by treasures or riches; & therefore it always brings me more joy only to fix riche...

Juana Inés de la Cruz

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius.

Juana Inés de la Cruz

The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin?

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Author Bio

  • NameJuana Inés de la Cruz
  • DescriptionMexican nun, writer and poet
  • BornNovember 12, 1648
  • DiedApril 17, 1695
  • CountryMexico
  • ProfessionPoet; Nun; Writer; Mathematician; Philosopher