Nezahualcoyotl · Philosophy
The Nahua idea of <em>in xochitl in cuicatl</em> - ‘flower and song’ - the paired metaphor for poetry and art, held by the sages of Texcoco to be the one way a human being can say true words and touch the divine on a fleeting earth.
You learned that in xochitl in cuicatl , ‘flower and song,’ is a Nahua difrasismo (a paired metaphor) meaning poetry and art, and that the tradition attributed to Nezahualcoyotl treated it as the truest speech a human can manage on a slippery, fleeting earth. Explain the idea, and why art rather than argum…
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