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"Procura desmentir los elogios" by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

You might be more familiar with her myth than with her poems (except, of course, "Redondillas"), so let me post this classic sonet by one of Mexico's most beloved poets, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Just a piece of advice: don't look for her work in poemas-del-alma.com unless you want to die because of the cringy and pretentious comments in the site.


Este que ves, engaño colorido,
que, del arte ostentando los primores,
con falsos silogismos de colores
es cauteloso engaño del sentido;

éste en quien la lisonja ha pretendido
excusar de los años los horrores
y venciendo del tiempo los rigores
triunfar de la vejez y del olvido:

es un vano artificio del cuidado;
es una flor al viento delicada;
es un resguardo inútil para el hado;

es una necia diligencia errada;
es un afán caduco y, bien mirado,
es cadáver, es polvo, es sombra, es nada.

De la Cruz, J. (1997) poems protests and a dream: selected writings. U.S.A. ed. PENGUIN random house

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