Poems, Protest, and a Dream Quotes

“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.”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

“For now, this afternoon, you saw and touched
my heart, dissolved and liquid in your hands.”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

“For those who are with greatness born
Should live not for themselves alone.”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings

“If dual torment is to be my one condition,
both of loving and being loved I would quit.”
― Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings