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Nicanor Parra Quotes

1914–2018 Chile

Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist.

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I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive.

Time has erased everything like a white sandstorm.

To break the vicious circle, a gratuitous act is recommended.

Rise in bread prices triggers another rise in bread prices.

We believe ourselves to be a country, yet the truth is that we are merely a landscape.

"Well, and now who will free us from our liberators?"

I am neither right-wing nor left-wing. I simply break with everything.

For half a century, poetry was the paradise of the solemn fool—until I came along and set up my roller coaster.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nicanor Parra (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.