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To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it

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

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

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Wisdom
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game. – Octavio Paz

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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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Poetry
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Too many people in the modern world view poetry as a luxury, not a necessity like petrol. But to me its the oil of life. – John Betjeman

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Poetry

A poem can have an impact, but you cant expect an audience to understand all the nuances. – Douglas Dunn

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Poetry

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. – W. H. Auden

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Poetry

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. – Rita Dove

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Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. – Saigyo

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Change

I remember when I took Quentin Tarantino with me to a very private screening of the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which shows some of the legal irregularities of his case. I was involved by the film, and it was an amazing experience to see people weep at the end of it. – Harvey Weinstein

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I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didnt quite have perhaps the drive or, I dont know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose. – David Hockney

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Just hit my 75th birthday, Im feeling great! – Colin Powell

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Birthday