Quote of the day
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
Luis de Góngora
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:
- Soledades (1613)
- La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (1612)
- The Solitudes of Don Luis de Góngora
- Luis de Góngora: Selected Shorter Poems
- Sonetos completos