Nicanor Parra Quotes
Our Father who art in Heaven Full of all kinds of problems Ceaselessly frowning As if you were a simple man: Stop thinking about us.
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| Birth: | 5th September, 1914 |
| Nationality: | Chilean |
| Profession: | Mathematician, Physicist, Poet |
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Nicanor 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".
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