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  •    Si hay poes|a en nuestra Ame  rica, ella esta   en las cosas viejas: en Palenke y Uatla  n, en el indio legendario y el inca sensual y fino y en el gran Moctezuma de la silla de oro. Lo dema  s es tuyo, demo  crataWaltWhitman. If there is poetry in our America, it is in ancient items: in Palenke and Uatla  n, in the legendary Indian and in the sensuous and elegant Inca and the great Moctezuma. The rest is yours, democratic Walt Whitman.

    - Rube  n pseudonym of Fe  lixRube  nGarc|a Sarmiento Dar|  o
      Prosas profanas,'Palabras liminares'.

  • Porque alla   los espan‹  oles y las otras naciones†como tienen historias divinas y humanas, saben por ellas cua  ndo empezaron a reinar sus Reyes y los ajenos†todo esto y mucho ma  s saben por sus libros. Empero vosotros, que carece  is de ellos, Que   memoria tene  is de vuestras antiguallas?, Quie  n fue el primero de nuestros Incas? Over there Spaniards and other nations know from their divine and human history when their Kings and other peoples' Kings began their reigns† Their books teach them all of this, and much more. But you, who have no books, what memories do you have of your ancient past? Who was our first Inca?

    - Inca Garcilaso de laVega
      Comentarios reales (TheRoyal Commentaries of Peru,1688), bk.1, ch.15.

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