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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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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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I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeares sonnets. – Diane Wakoski

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If you were going to choose a way of making your way in this world and a place to start from, you might not choose poetry and you might not choose Huddersfield. – Simon Armitage

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Poetry

Most people cant tell now who wrote what. I like that blurring of identities within the band. because it becomes a unified thing that cant be related to other forms of historical poetry. – Thurston Moore

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If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. – Emily Dickinson

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Surely our inaction with respect to Syria is a poor precedent if were fighting a war on terror. – Bill Kristol

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