I saw people run

Open-air concert in tribute to Armando Manzanero in the Plaza de la Revolución in Managua (Nicaragua). Jorge Torres / EFE

It is said that the poet Jaime Gil de Biedma asked the literary critic and learned linguist Francisco Rico what was the best-achieved verse of the bolero.

, from the one so mourned these days Armando Manzanero;

and the academic replied, without hesitation, that it was,

, who are splendid and timely among the others in the stanza:

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