Do you know who Nezahualcoyotl is? Maybe the name sounds familiar to you or maybe not, but today, when you read his sentences, what we do know is that you will feel that something has changed inside you forever. He was known as the Poet King. He was a man who ruled (tlatoani) of Texcoco, today part of the State of Mexico. He was an architect, warrior and academic of the time and his native language was Nahuatl. He was born in Texcoco. In 1402 and he died in 1472… imagine how important his reflections were that last to this day. He was also known as the Philosopher King.
He was the son of Princess Matlalcihuatzin, daughter of Huitzilíhuitl, king of the Aztecs and second teacher of Tenochtitlán. and from Ixtlilxóchitl, sixth master of the Chichimecas and master of Texcoco. At birth he was named Acolmiztli, or Strong Puma, but the tragic circumstances that he lived through in his adolescence made him change his name to Nezahualcóyotl, or Hungry Coyote.
At the age of 16 he faced the Tepanec invasion where they wanted to kill his father and the entire family in order to stay with the throne. Nezahualcoyotl's father preferred to flee until he found the support of other tribes.
After many persecutions and deaths, he wanted to create a time of splendor in Mexico and end all the tyranny they had endured for decades. After such an intense life It is not for less that he ended up capturing with paper and pen great words that came out of his heart and mind.
Next we are going to leave you some of them, because although hundreds of years have passed, it is possible that you feel good reading them and even that you can apply them to your own life ... they are phrases full of wisdom. Some of the phrases are noticeable that they are of the time ... but that gives it even more charm!
Nezahualcoyotl phrases full of wisdom that today still serve us to live better
- Live in peace, spend life in calm!
- Let your heart be straightened: here no one will live forever.
- How should my heart act? Do we come to live in vain, to sprout on the earth?
- The bird walks there, chatters and sings, it comes to see the house of God. Only with our flowers.
- I have come to be sad, I grieve. You are no longer here, no longer, in the region where it somehow exists. You left us without provision on earth. Because of this, I wear myself out.
- The beautiful pheasant sings over the flowers, its song unfolds in the interior of the waters. Various red birds respond to him. The beautiful red bird beautifully sings.
- I look at their faces, eagles and tigers everywhere, from experience I know the jades, the precious bangles.
- Will they come once more, will they live again? Only once do we perish, only once here on earth.
- Even if you were made of jade, even if you go there, to the place of the fleshy. We will have to disappear. No one will be left.
- God, our Lord, is invoked everywhere, everywhere he is also worshiped. He seeks his glory, his fame on Earth. He is the one who invents things, he is the one who invents himself.
- What of this life is borrowed, that in an instant we have to leave it as others have left it.
- Everything that is true (that has a root), they say is not true (that has no root).
- Without violence it remains and thrives in the midst of its books and paintings, there is the city of Tenochtitlan.
- To rid your children of these vices and calamities, make them give themselves to virtue and work from childhood.
- How to live next to the people? Does he act thoughtlessly, does he live, he who sustains and elevates men?
- If I never died, if I never disappeared. There where there is no death, there where she is conquest, may I go there ...
- As if it were made of gold, like a fine necklace, like the wide plumage of a quetzal, that's how I appreciate your true song: with it I'm happy.
- With flowers you write, giver of life. With colorful songs, with shady songs for those who have to live on Earth.
- Take your cocoa now, let it be already drunk! Let the dance take place, begin the dialogue of the songs! This is not our home, we will not live here, you will have to leave anyway.
- With eagerness I want, I long for friendship, nobility, community. With flowery songs I live.
- Within the sky you forge your design. You will decree it: are you fed up and here you hide your fame and your glory on earth? What do you decree?
- Am I to stand on the earth? What is my destiny? I am needy, my heart suffers, you are just my friend on earth, here.
- How should I go? Will I leave nothing behind me on earth? How should my heart act? Do we come to live in vain, to sprout on the earth? Let's leave at least flowers. Let's at least leave songs.
- Are you true, do you have a root? Only he who dominates all things, the giver of life. In this right? Isn't it, as they say? That our hearts do not have torment!
- I am Nezahualcóyotl, I am the singer, I am a big-headed parrot. Take your flowers and your fan now. Start dancing with them!
- There where somehow it exists. I wish I could follow the princes, bring them our flowers! If only I could make the beautiful songs of Tezozomoctzin my own! Your name will never perish.
- Where will we go, where death does not exist? More, for this I will live crying? Let your heart be straightened: here no one will live forever.
- Precious realities makes it rain, your happiness comes from you, giver of life! Olorous flowers, precious flowers, I yearned for them, I had vain wisdom ...
- My flowers will not end, my songs will not cease. I sing, I raise them, they spread, they spread. Even when the flowers wither and yellow, they will be carried there, inside the house of the bird with the golden feathers.
- Extend your compassion, I am by your side, you are God. Maybe you want to kill me? Is it true that we rejoice, that we live on earth?
