Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Nicanor Parra

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Chilean poet Nicanor Parra.
Last updated on November 7, 2024.
Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval was a Chilean poet and physicist. He was considered one of the most influential Chilean poets of the Spanish language in the 20th century, often compared with Pablo Neruda. Parra described himself as an "anti-poet," due to his distaste for standard poetic pomp and function; after recitations he would exclaim "Me retracto de todo lo dicho".

United States: the country where liberty is a statue. — © Nicanor Parra
United States: the country where liberty is a statue.
Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.
A poem should improve on the blank page.
In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.
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