Nezahualcóyotl Quotes

So said Tochihuitzin,so said Coyolchiuhqui:We come out of the dream suddenly,we only come to dream,it isn't true, it isn't truethat we come to live on the earth.Like grass in springis our being.Our heart makes them grow,flowers sprout from our flesh.Some open their corollas,then they become dry.So said Tochihuitzin.

Nezahualcóyotl

What shall I take with me?Will I let nothing behind me over the earth?How shall my heart act?Is it that we come in vain to live,to sprout over the earth?Let us leave at least flowers,let us leave at least songs.

Nezahualcóyotl

The Giver of Life enrages us,He intoxicates us here.No one is at His sideto be famous, to rule on Earth.

Nezahualcóyotl