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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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Society
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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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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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Poetry
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and thats a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. – Lucille Clifton

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Poetry

I think it comes from really liking literary forms. Poetry is very beautiful, but the space on the page can be as affecting as where the text is. Like when Miles Davis doesnt play, it has a poignancy to it. – Jim Jarmusch

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Poetry

It is a happy thing that there is no royal road to poetry. The world should know by this time that one cannot reach Parnassus except by flying thither. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Poetry

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. – Bertrand Russell

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Poetry

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