“Feathers are Love's most fitting battle-ground.”

— Luis de Góngora , Soledades

A batallas de amor, campo de pluma.
Las Soledades, Soledad 1, line 1091, cited from Gilbert F. Cunningham (trans.) The Solitudes of Luis de Góngora (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1968) p. 76. Translation from the same source, p. 77.

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A batallas de amor campos de plumas.

Citas en verso
Source: [Señor] (1997), p. 36.

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Spanish Baroque lyric poet 1561–1627

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