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Octavio Paz Quotes

Mexican - Poet | March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

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.

Time Excellence Seed Universe Human

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Eyes Poetry See Ears Poem Hear

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.

Nature History Silence Language True

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Alone Man Solitude Human Being Only

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

Change Alone Here About Each Brings

To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

Great Limits Language Someone Poet

The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

Work Art Artist Say More Always

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.

Man Speak Think Thinking Different

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

Society You Know Western Writers

All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

Vision Moment Unique Place Existence

Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

Nature Growth People Me Will Nation

Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

History Man Me Seems He

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