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).

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