Octavio Paz Quotes
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Octavio Paz Famous Quotes & Sayings
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By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Is not really a system of painting but a method of internal investigation. It is not the philosophy of painting but painting as philosophy.
Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
Human nature is universial, and it endures through all cultures and epochs. This is the secret of perenniality of certain poems and books.
If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.
Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
To live is also to think, and sometimes to cross that border beyond which feeling and thinking become one: poetry. Meanwhile,
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
Perhaps to love is to learn
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers ... What we call art is a game.
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death.