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Category Archive: 1914

Octavio Paz Quote: “Technology is neutral and sterile. Now…”

Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

October 28, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

Octavio Paz Quote: “All of us, at some moment…”

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

October 26, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

Daniel J. Boorstin Quote: “I’ve learned any fool can write…”

I’ve learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.

October 22, 2021 1914, American, Daniel J. Boorstin, October 1, Quotes by Historians

Octavio Paz Quote: “Walt Whitman is the only great…”

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude – his monologue is a universal chorus.

October 15, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

James Laughlin Quote: “Every now and then, I strike…”

Every now and then, I strike something that just goes click, you know, in my head. As Gertrude Stein used to say, it rings the bell, and I feel, this is great.

October 5, 2021 1914, American, James Laughlin, October 30, Quotes by Poets

James Laughlin Quote: “I think that concrete poetry seems…”

I think that concrete poetry seems to have, as far as I can see, come to a kind of a dead end. It doesn’t seem to be going any further than it went in its high period of about five or six years ago.

October 5, 2021 1914, American, James Laughlin, October 30, Quotes by Poets

Dylan Thomas Quote: “Washington isn’t a city, it’s an…”

Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.

September 29, 2021 1914, Dylan Thomas, October 27, Quotes by Poets, Welsh

Laurie Lee Quote: “I have been sitting watching that…”

I have been sitting watching that ever since I came back, the continuous variations of light and shadow.

September 28, 2021 1914, English, June 26, Laurie Lee, Quotes by Poets

Octavio Paz Quote: “Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor…”

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

September 26, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

Octavio Paz Quote: “Poems – crystallizations of the universal…”

Poems – crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.

September 25, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

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