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La cara es el espejo del alma. Literal translation: The face is the mirror of the soul. Meaning/use: Our face reflects our state of health, our character, and our mood. Origin: Cicero (106-43 BC): 'Ut imago est animi voltus sic indices oculi' La diligencia es la madre de la buena ventura. Literal translation: Diligence is the mother of good ...
Posada's La Calavera Garbancera together with a literary calaverita in 1913. The Literary Calavera or calavera literaria (Spanish: literary skull) is a traditional Mexican literary form: a satirical or light-hearted writing in verse, often composed for the Day of the Dead.
¿Y Tu Abuela Donde Esta? ( ¿Y tu agüela, aonde ejtá? in the Puerto Rican dialect) is a poem by Puerto Rican poet Fortunato Vizcarrondo [ 1 ] [ 2 ] (1899 – 1977), [ 3 ] which has been recorded both as songs and as poetry by many Latin American artists, most notably the Afro-Cuban artist Luis Carbonell. [ 1 ]
ataque de nervios a sudden nervous reaction, similar to hysterics, or losing control, experienced in response to something [2] ¡Bendito! variants are ¡Ay bendito! and dito - “aww poor you” or “oh my god”; “ay” meaning lament, and “bendito” meaning blessed.
Magali García Ramis was born in 1946 in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico and spent her childhood there with her mother, father and brothers, near her mother's family, with close relations with uncles, cousins and her maternal grandmother.
The Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library (MCVL; in Spanish: Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes, BVMC) is a large-scale digital library project, hosted and maintained by the University of Alicante in Alicante, Spain.
La Carreta (English: The Oxcart) is a 1953 play by Puerto Rican playwright René Marqués. [2] The story follows a family of "jíbaros", or rural peasants, who in an effort to find better opportunities end up moving to the United States (see Puerto Rican migration to New York).
Cover of the 1911 first edition of the Ratón Pérez tale by Luis Coloma, illustrated by Mariano Pedrero []. El Ratoncito Pérez or Ratón Pérez (lit. transl. Perez the Little Mouse or Perez Mouse) is a fantasy figure of early childhood in Spanish and Hispanic American cultures.