Quote of the day
It goes without saying that the desire to accomplish the task with more confidence, to avoid wasting time and labour, and to spare our experimental animals as much as possible, made us strictly observe all the precautions taken by surgeons in respect to their patients.
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)







