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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

A preeminent writer of the Hispanic Baroque and Latin American colonial period, Juana Inés de Asbaje y Ramírez de Santillana was born in San Miguel Nepantla, near Mexico City. There are two baptism certificates for her,

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by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (1648–95)

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Who thankless flees me, I with love pursue,
Who loving follows me, I thankless flee;
To him who spurns my love I bend the knee,
His love who seeks me, cold I bid him rue;
I find as diamond him I yearning woo,
Myself a diamond when he yearns for me;
Who slays my love I would victorious see,
While slaying him who wills me blisses true.
To favor this one is to lose desire,

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