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1600–1681 Spain
Pedro Calderón de la Barca (January 17, 1600 – May 25, 1681) was a Spanish dramatist and poet.
Also known as: Calderón de la Barca, Pedro, De la Barca, Pedro Calderón
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I am a brother of contentment; grief, I know not what it is, nor have ever been servant to it. Briefly, I am what you see me: major-domo unto laughter, gentleman-in-waiting to pleasure, and the chamberlain of frolic — which a glance, indeed, might show you.
Nothing — since men formed as I am do not see, enough they fancy, suspect, foreshadow, feel some instinct — some divining — some... I know not what to say; for there is no word that can give the meaning — feelings that resemble atoms that cannot be divided.
What surprises you, if a dream taught me this wisdom, and if I still fear I may wake up and find myself once more confined in prison? And even if this should not happen, merely to dream it is enough. For this I have come to know, that all human happiness finally ceases, like a dream.
Do not such despite to the Aurora, a lady like thyself — be more courteous; thou shouldst not wrong a beauty, in whose every breath we drink the odour of the pink and jessamine. Its brightness, mighty divinity, has a fleeting empire over the day — giving gladness to the fields, colour to the flowers, the season of the loves, harmonious hour of wakening birds.
Like the wind he flew in swiftness, lightning-like he flashed to and fro; he was a swan in whiteness, speckled like the snake with blood, proud of his beauty, full of spirit in his neighing, firm and strong in his fetlocks.
Scarcely had I entered into the cavern when I heard in its sad bounds how each complained and lamented in accents of despair; blasphemies, curses, alone I heard, crimes avowed, that I believe Heaven, in order not to hear them, had placed them in this prison.