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

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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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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz

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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry – the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny. – Lafcadio Hearn

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It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found – indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese. – Lafcadio Hearn

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. – Robert Frost

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When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read. – Hilaire Belloc

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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. – Anais Nin

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Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. – Mary McCarthy, On the Contrary

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We dont receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. – Marcel Proust

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