Jorge Manrique

Jorge Manrique (c. 1440 – 24 April 1479) was a major Castilian poet, whose main work, the Coplas por la muerte de su padre ('Verses on the death of Don Rodrigo Manrique, his Father'), is still read today.

Quotes

• Nuestras vidas son los ríos
  Que van a dar en Ia mar,
  Que es el morir.
  • Our lives are rivers, gliding free,
    To that unfathomed, boundless sea,
    The silent grave!
  • Coplas por la Muerte de su Padre (c. 1460) — Tr. Longfellow (1833)

External links

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Coplas de Don Jorge Manrique (Boston: Allen & Ticknor, 1833)