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Nicanor Parra

Nicanor Parra quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“United States: the country where liberty is a statue.”
-- Nicanor Parra

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“A poem should improve on the blank page.”
-- Nicanor Parra

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“In the cage there is food, not much, but there is food-outside are only great stretches of freedom.”
-- Nicanor Parra

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“Truth, like beauty, is neither created nor lost.”
-- Nicanor Parra

Source : Nicanor Parra (1967). “Poems and antipoems: Edited by Miller Williams. [Translators: Fernando Alegría and others.]”

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“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”
“I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.”
“I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.”
“Josh: So, Toby, itâ€™s election night. What do you say about a country that goes out of its way to protect even those citizens that try to destroy it? Toby: God bless America.”
“We lead the world in only 3 categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next 26 countries combined, 25 of whom are allies. Now none of this is the fault of 20 year old college student, but you nonetheless are without a doubt a member of the worst period generation period ever period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world I don't know what the f^&k you're talking about.”
“When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.”
“A people fired ... with love of their country and of liberty, a zeal for the public good, and a noble emulation of glory, will not be disheartened or dispirited by a succession of unfortunate events. But like them, may we learn by defeat the power of becoming invincible.”
“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”
“Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny.”
“Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.”

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