The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.Aristotle
“I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.”
Nun, poet and scholar · 1648 – 1695
Mexican Hieronymite nun, poet and scholar of the colonial Baroque, famed for the philosophical poem 'Primero sueño' and her bold defence of women's right to learn in the Reply to Sor Filotea. She is celebrated as the first great poet of the Americas.
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