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Life is a wounded stag in whom the fast-stuck arrows function as wings.

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Let merchants traverse seas and lands,
For silver mines and golden sands;
Whilst I beside some shadowy rill,
Just where its bubbling fountain swells,
Do sit and gather stones and shells,
And hear the tale the blackbird tells.

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The hours will hardly forgive you, those hours that are wearing away the days, those days that are gnawing away the years.

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Longer than a winter's night for a man who is ill-wed.

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Let me go warm and merry still;
And let the world laugh, an' it will.

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Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora
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Born: July 11, 1561
Died: May 24, 1627 (aged 65)
Bio: Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time.
Known for:
  1. Soledades (1613)
  2. La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (1612)
  3. The Solitudes of Don Luis de Góngora
  4. Luis de Góngora: Selected Shorter Poems
  5. Sonetos completos

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