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Octavio Paz Quotes

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival Picture Quote #1

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped Picture Quote #1

Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches Picture Quote #1

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death Picture Quote #1

Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life Picture Quote #1

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us Picture Quote #1

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Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows Picture Quote #1

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry Picture Quote #1

Poet: gardener of epitaphs Picture Quote #1

Whatever is not stone is light Picture Quote #1

The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature Picture Quote #1

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life Picture Quote #1

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Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift Picture Quote #1

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences Picture Quote #1

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don’t move; today is today, always is today Picture Quote #1

For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears Picture Quote #1

With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life Picture Quote #1

There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society Picture Quote #1

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What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree’s branches Picture Quote #1

Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves Picture Quote #1

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them Picture Quote #1

Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings Picture Quote #1

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them Picture Quote #1

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history Picture Quote #1

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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears Picture Quote #1

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game Picture Quote #1

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time Picture Quote #1

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden Picture Quote #1

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Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival (Octavio Paz Quotes) My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped (Octavio Paz Quotes) Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches (Octavio Paz Quotes) By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death (Octavio Paz Quotes) Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life (Octavio Paz Quotes) The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us (Octavio Paz Quotes) Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows (Octavio Paz Quotes) A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry (Octavio Paz Quotes) Poet: gardener of epitaphs (Octavio Paz Quotes) Whatever is not stone is light (Octavio Paz Quotes) The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature (Octavio Paz Quotes) A civilization that denies death ends by denying life (Octavio Paz Quotes) Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift (Octavio Paz Quotes) Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences (Octavio Paz Quotes) Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don’t move; today is today, always is today (Octavio Paz Quotes) For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears (Octavio Paz Quotes) With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life (Octavio Paz Quotes) There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society (Octavio Paz Quotes) What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree’s branches (Octavio Paz Quotes) Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves (Octavio Paz Quotes) Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them (Octavio Paz Quotes) Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings (Octavio Paz Quotes) What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them (Octavio Paz Quotes) Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history (Octavio Paz Quotes) To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears (Octavio Paz Quotes) Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game (Octavio Paz Quotes) If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time (Octavio Paz Quotes) Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual (Octavio Paz Quotes) 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 (Octavio Paz Quotes) Drugs are nihilistic: they undermine all values and radically overturn all our ideas about good and evil, what is just and what is unjust, what is permitted and what is forbidden (Octavio Paz Quotes)

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