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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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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – 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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Poetry, especially traditional Iranian poetry, is very good at looking at things from a number of different angles simultaneously. – Asghar Farhadi

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We read Robert Brownings poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough. – Carl Sandburg

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Because people are very interested in my poetry, in what I say. – Compay Segundo

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Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appall them if it did. – Christopher Morley, John Mistletoe

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James

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Whats an expert? I read somewhere, that the more a man knows, the more he knows, he doesnt know. So I suppose one definition of an expert would be someone who doesnt admit out loud that he knows enough about a subject to know he doesnt really know how much. – Malcolm Stevenson Forbes

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One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. Theres nothing to do but to stand there and take it. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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