14 Quotes by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Yo no estudio para escribir, ni menos para enseñar (que fuera en mí desmedida soberbia), sino sólo por ver si con estudiar ignoro menos. Así lo respondo y así lo siento.

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.

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

Rosa que al prado, encarnada,te ostentas presuntuosade grana y carmín bañada:campa lozana y gustosa;pero no, que siendo hermosatambien serás desdichada.

For now, this afternoon, you saw and touchedmy heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands.

If dual torment is to be my one condition,both of loving and being loved I would quit.

I believed, when I entered this convent, I was escaping from myself, but alas, poor me, I brought myself with me!

For those who are with greatness bornShould live not for themselves alone.

[En Los empeños de una casa se pinta a sí misma a través de Leonor , la protagonista de la obra]:Inclinéme a los estudiosDesde mis primeros añosCon tan ardientes desvelos,Con tan ansiosos cuidados,Que reduje a tiempo breveFatigas de mucho espacio.(...)