Enrique Lihn Quotes

Chile, Writer
September 3, 1929 – July, 10, 1988.

Enrique Lihn Carrasco was a Chilean poet, playwright, and novelist. The son of Enrique Lihn Doll and María Carrasco Délano, he married Ivette Mingram . They had one daughter, the actress Andrea María Lihn Mingram. Linh was born in Santiago, Chile.

We are nothing: imitations, copies, phantoms: repeaters of what we understand badly, that is, hardly at all: the animated fossils of a prehistory that have lived neither here nor there, consequently anywhere, for we are aboriginal foreigners, transplanted from birth in our respective countries of origin.

Enrique Lihn