Quote of the day
The first duty towards children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
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)