Quote of the day
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Nicanor Parra
Born: September 5, 1914
Died: January 23, 2018 (aged 103)
Bio: Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist. He is considered an influential poet in Chile and throughout Latin America. Some rank him among the most important poets of Spanish language literature.
Known for:
- Poems & antipoems (1954)
- Artefactos
- Antipoems, new and selected (1985)
- After-dinner declarations (2009)