Oliverio Girondo

Oliverio Girondo

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

Poetry

• 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

• Chamber's Dictionary of Quotations, 1996