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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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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Art
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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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History
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. Im always painting and drawing as well, and its an ongoing creative assignment. – P. J. Harvey

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Poetry

Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind. – Don Marquis

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Poetry

The poet needs to admire; he is in a merely human sense the high priest of the true, the beautiful, the grand. On whatever side he spreads his wings it is his mission to bear the universal homage to these worthy objects, or to some ideas of them. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

Art: If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy. – Muhammad Iqbal

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Poetry

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For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. – Storm Jameson

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Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. – Khalil Gibran

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We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum. – Evan Davis

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Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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