"I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive."
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Interview with The New York Times, June 27, 1968, p. 49
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Nicanor Parra
Nicanor Segundo Parra Sandoval (5 September 1914 – 23 January 2018) was a Chilean poet, mathematician, and physicist.
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