Quote of the day
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true.
You may have to work for it, however.
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)