Chile

🇨🇱Pablo Neruda

politics

1904–1973

"Celebrating Chilean Poet Pablo Neruda – Democracy Now! interviews Martin Espada, poet and professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst."

🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

Religion

Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

🇨🇱Augusto Pinochet

Politics

1925–2006

"Don't forget that in the history of the world, there was a plebiscite, in which Christ and Barabbas were being judged, and the people chose Barabbas."

🇨🇱Roberto Bolaño

Literature

Infrarrealismo

1953–2003

"One day I heard that The Eye had left Mexico. I wasn't surprised that he hadn't said good-bye. The Eye never said good-bye to anyone. I never said good-bye to anyone either."

🇨🇱F. J. Duarte

Literature

b. 1954

"The most efficient and practical interpretation of quantum mechanics is... no interpretation at all."

🇨🇱Salvador Allende

Politics

1908–1973

"We start from different ideological positions. For you, to be a Communist or a Socialist is to be totalitarian; for me no.… On the contrary, I think Socialism frees man."

🇨🇱Karol Cariola

Politics

1941–2005

"Karol Cariola on her trip to Cuba and her meeting with students, workers and Fidel Castro in Havana, Cuba – 5 April 2012 Cuba Hoy via YouTube"

🇨🇱Eugenio Cruz Vargas

Literature

realism

1923–2014

"Silence is the space that has yet to be resolved where the dynamics of thinking and deciding."

🇨🇱Humberto Maturana

Philosophy

1928–2021

"Love is the grounding of our existence as humans, and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings."

🇨🇱Nicanor Parra

Science

1914–2018

"I do physics in order to earn my living, and I do poetry in order to keep alive."

🇨🇱Jorge Vargas González

Politics

b. 1967

"If something have demonstrated the elections and the percentage she got is that nobody wanted her here."