Chilean Quotes

“You shall create beauty not to excite the senses
but to give sustenance to the soul. ”
― Gabriela Mistral

“So Lorenzo grew up in Chile without arms, an unfortunate situation for any child, but he also grew up in Pinochet’s Chile, which turned unfortunate situations into desperate ones, on top of which he soon discovered that he was homosexual, which made his already desperate situation inconceivable and indescribable. Given these circumstances, it is not surprising that Lorenzo became an artist. (What else could he do?)”
― Roberto Bolaño

“El primer amor, es amor ; el segundo amor, es despecho ; el tercero , el cuarto , el quinto y los siguientes , son deporte.”
― Martina Cañas

“On growing up internationally - from the Daughter of Copper.

And so, with the greatest of ease, both as children and adults, we float back and forth between our two languages and cultures, seamlessly navigating the moments of time and place that define us.”
― Susan Bayless Herrera, Daughter of Copper, A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Identity, Growing up on Borrowed Land

“Sólo debo agregar que en aquel día
Nació en mi mente la inquietud y el ansia
De hacer en verso lo que en ola y ola
Dios a mi vista sin cesar creaba.
Desde ese entonces data la ferviente
Y abrasadora sed que me arrebata:
Es que, en verdad, desde que existe el inundo,
La voz del mar en mi persona estaba.”
― Nicanor Parra, Poemas y antipoemas