Quote of the day
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
At this still hour the self-collected soul
Turns inward, and beholds a stranger there
Of high descent, and more than mortal rank;
An embryo God; a spark of fire divine.
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)







