Oliverio Girondo
Argentinian poet and writer (1891–1967)
Oliverio Girondo (17 August 1891 — 24 January 1967) was an Argentine poet. He travelled extensively in Europe and Africa and had close contact with the French avant garde. He edited the Ultraist manifesto in the avant-grade magazine Martín Fierro (1924).
Quotes
editPoetry
edit- Cansado,
sobre todo,
de hallarme cada día,
cuando termina el sueño,
allí, donde me encuentre,
con las mismas narices
y con las mismas piernas. - translation:
- Tired,
above all,
of being always with myself,
of finding myself everyday,
when the dream comes to an end,
wherever I am,
with the same old nose
and with the same old legs.- Persuadión de los días, ‘Cansancio’ (‘Fatigue’), 1942, Quoted in Chamber's Dictionary of Quotations, p. 358
External links
edit- Chamber's Dictionary of Quotations, 1996