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The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz
Age: 84 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: April 2
Diplomat
Essayist
Lyricist
Philosopher
Poet
Politician
Translator
Writer
Mexico City
Mexico
Octavio Paz Lozano
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Mankind
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There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
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Cubism had been an analysis of the object and an attempt to put it before us in its totality both as analysis and as synthesis, it was a criticism of appearance. Surrealism transmuted the object, and suddenly a canvas became an apparition: a new figuration, a real transfiguration.
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Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master the world changes if two look at each other and see.
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Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.
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The world is born when two people kiss
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Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move today is today, always is today.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
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Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
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Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.
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