Octavio Paz Quotes

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: mexican
  • Birth: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998

Topics

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Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films.

Michael Gambon

GenerationTelevisionUpPlaysDried

The common fisheries policy essentially gave other European Union nations unfettered access to our fish stocks and - I would hope - that if we leave the European Union, we can once more see the ports of Peterborough and Fraserhead and Grimsby flourishing, because we will take back control of our territorial waters.

Michael Gove

HopeControlFishBackWillSee

Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.

John Wesley Powell

PrayerDanceYearsFloodCome

I've been very fortunate to work for great people - so even when the political process gets ugly, I find inspiration in the people around me.

Stephanie Cutter

WorkGreatUglyPeopleMePolitical

There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups.

Sophie Hannah

PeopleThinkEveryoneNormalBecause

I just want to be a good storyteller.

Sia

GoodWantJustStoryteller

'The Chimney Sweeper's Boy' began differently from any previous book I'd written. It actually derives from a story a friend - the novel's dedicatee, Patrick Maher - told me.

Ruth Rendell

FriendMeBookStoryBoyChimney

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

Little Milton

StarsPeopleYouNobodyKnowReal

We all approached doing a sequel with great trepidation and skepticism.

Jason Biggs

GreatDoingSkepticismSequel

For comics, Edinburgh makes no financial or medical sense. Get an audience; that's the first task. Once the punters are in, simply make them laugh for an hour, and then sweat on the critics.

Dominic Holland

MedicalFinancialLaughSweatTask

We cannot expect to keep our nation's secrets secure - or provide meaningful oversight for our intelligence agencies - if proper classification of our country's secrets is as likely as a coin flip.

Dianne Feinstein

IntelligenceSecretsCountryCoin

Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.

Dayananda Saraswati

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