Quotes About Quevedo

Por otra parte, conseguir que una sociedad de hidalgos o que pretendía serlo (Hasta los zapateros y los sastres presumen de cristianos viejos y pasean espada al cinto, escribía Quevedo) se pusiera a trabajar en la agricultura, en la ganadería, en el comercio, en las mismas actividades que estaban ya enriqueciendo a los estados más modernos de Europa, era pedir peras al olmo, honradez a un escribano o caridad a un inquisidor.

We can't be ambassadors because we don't have a country. Puerto Rico is not a country with any power in the world, I won't be considered a great poet. Spain created great poets with its empire and made them known around the world through its empire. Great poetry has always stemmed from the economic prosperity of a people. That is why we have Quevedo and Gongora.