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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. — Octavio Paz

You're in the democratic West now, lady. Anybody's as good as anybody else as long as he's got the dough to prove it. — Leslie Ford

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment. — Bob Feller

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives. — Edward Dahlberg

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind. — Natalie Goldberg

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? — Octavio Paz

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. — Octavio Paz

Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. — Octavio Paz

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences. — Octavio Paz

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them. — Octavio Paz

The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder. — Octavio Paz

Marty knew about rituals. "That means we're supposed to do something a certain way so we won't feel guilty," he said. "You got it," Harry said. Marty — Greg Bear

My favorite Elton John song is "Daniel"; my son is named Daniel and he's partly named after my wife's father, but also partly named after that song. — Steven Drozd

To live is also to think, and sometimes to cross that border beyond which feeling and thinking become one: poetry. Meanwhile, — Octavio Paz

There is a reason why all things are as they are. — Bram Stoker

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet. — John Donne

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. — Octavio Paz