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Octavio Paz Quotes

«If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.»
«Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most perfect expression of the will to power... but also in the fact that it lacks meaning.»
Author: Octavio Paz | Keywords: lacks, nihilism, operating
«Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.»
Author: Octavio Paz | Keywords: beggars, Western
«The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.»
«Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.»
Author: Octavio Paz | About: Art | Keywords: aesthetics, in turn, philosophers
«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.»
«To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.»
Author: Octavio Paz
«...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and his most lasting love.»
Author: Octavio Paz
«A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cotton cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing before the separation of the useful and the beautiful.»
Author: Octavio Paz

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