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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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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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Our democratic capitalist society has converted Eros into an employee of Mammon. – Octavio Paz

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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. – Isaac Rosenberg

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Poetry

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry

Poetry is the overflowing of the soul. – Henry T. Tuckerman, “Bryant,” Thoughts on the Poets, 1850

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Poetry

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