SOR JUANA INÉS DE LA CRUZ: TITLE COMMENTARY

"Respuesta a Sor Filotea de la Cruz"

OCTAVIO PAZ (ESSAY DATE 1982)

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FROM THE AUTHOR

POEM 146

In my pursuit, World, why such diligence?
What my offense, when I am thus inclined,
insuring elegance affect my mind,
not that my mind affect an elegance?

I have no love of riches or finánce,
and thus do I most happily, I find,
expend finances to enrich my mind
and not mind expend upon finánce.

I worship beauty not, but vilify
that spoil of time that mocks eternity,
nor less, deceitful treasures glorify,

but hold foremost, with greatest constancy,
consuming all the vanity in life,
and not consuming life in vanity.

Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Poem 146. In Poems, Protest, and a Dream: Selected Writings. Edited by Margaret Sayers Peden, p. 171. New York: Penguin, 1997. English translation reprinted from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Poems. Bilingual Press/Editorial bilingue, 1985.

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