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Octavio Paz Quotes

Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Painting Movement Analysis Delay

I'm not a wildly gifted person; I don't play an instrument or speak another language or have great accomplishments in another field, as many writers do. But writing feels natural to me; the act of it seems to free up my unconscious, so that sometimes I feel that I have access to more ideas and information than my conscious mind could think up.

Great Mind Me Ideas Writing Think

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

Me Free Write Big Modern Deal

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Life Marriage Eye My Life Talking

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

Believe Say Why Something Because

There could be more to the universe than the three dimensions we are familiar with. They are hidden from us in some way, perhaps because they're tiny or warped. But even if they're invisible, they could affect what we actually observe in the universe.

Universe Three Way More Hidden Us

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Good Dogs Greatest Get Rewards

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

Life Sacrifice Small You Achieve

I think it's really important that we understand that we share this world and we're connected to it.

Tim Hetherington

World Think Important Understand

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

Value Famous Celebrity See Being

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Experience Doing You Sometimes More

When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep.

Sleep Eat Days Straight Clark Gable

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

Feel You Same High Side Low

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