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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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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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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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Poetry
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Ive never read a political poem thats accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. – Howard Nemerov

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Poetry

There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry. – Eugenio Montale

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Poetry

Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Poetry

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite expressions. – Joseph Roux

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One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. – Albert Camus

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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin

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Life

A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. – Theodore Roosevelt

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