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Category Archive: Octavio Paz

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

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

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

Octavio Paz Quote: “The work of art is always…”

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator… Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

September 19, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

Octavio Paz Quote: “Self-discovery is above all the realization…”

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall – that of our consciousness – between the world and ourselves.

August 14, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

Octavio Paz Quote: “Poetry, whatever the manifest content of…”

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

August 12, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

Octavio Paz Quote: “We go along, without a fixed…”

We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

August 8, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

Octavio Paz Quote: “Literature is the expression of a…”

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.

June 21, 2021 1914, March 31, Mexican, Octavio Paz, Quotes by Poets

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