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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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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz

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alone
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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

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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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With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion. – Edgar Allan Poe

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Poetry

The ugly is in poetry only a passing shadow. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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I wrote things for the schools newspaper, and – like all teenagers – I dabbled in poetry. – Stephen Colbert

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Poetry

On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. – Hu Shih

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Poetry

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