To turn your face from clear proofs of deceit, To drink poi… - Lope de Vega

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To turn your face from clear proofs of deceit,
To drink poison as if it were a soothing liquor,
To disregard gain and delight in being injured.
To believe that heaven can lie contained in hell;
To devote your life and soul to being disillusioned;
This is love; whoever has tasted it, knows.

Lope de Vega

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Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (or Lope Félix de Vega Carpio) (November 25 1562 – August 27 1635) was a Spanish Baroque playwright and poet. His surviving plays, numbering more than 400, form the foundation of the Spanish dramatic tradition.

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Alternative Names: Phoenix of Wits • Prodigy of Nature • Lope Félix de Vega Carpio • Lopez de la Vega • Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio • Félix Lope de 4545Vega Carpio

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And what shall I say of the poets? Oh, this poor century of ours! In the coming year many of them will make their start, but not one of them is as bad as Cervantes, or idiotic enough to praise Don Quixote.

Pero la vida es corta:
viviendo, todo falta;
muriendo, todo sobra.

Dijeron que antiguamente
se fue la verdad al cielo;
tal la pusieron los hombres,
que desde entonces no ha vuelto.
En dos edades vivimos
los propios y los ajenos:
la de plata los estraños,
y la de cobre los nuestros.

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