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“I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive.”
Interview with The New York Times https://nyti.ms/2Uzw2nh, June 27, 1968, p. 49
Nicanor Parra Quotes
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval is 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. Parra describes himself as an "anti-poet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he exclaims "Me retracto de todo lo dicho" .
✵ 5. September 1914 – 23. January 2018 • Other names Nicanor Parra Sandoval, Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval
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