Octavio Paz Quotes

For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature.

Octavio Paz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

NatureArtCreativeLivingReason

Everything I have is for sale. Material items are just things that pass through your hands that mean very little or nothing.

John Mellencamp

HandsNothingMeanEverythingLittle

The NFL is a unique work place. There are no secrets anymore. Technology has taken over, and secrets are exposed. People are going to know what you're all about. You have to make sure you have real honesty in the work place, or you're going to be exposed.

Andy Reid

WorkTechnologyHonestyPeopleYou

I will continue my involvement in politics through Lord Ashcroft Polls and my political publishing interests: Conservative Home, Biteback Publishing and Dods.

Michael Ashcroft

HomePoliticsPoliticalConservative

Once we started making investments, we realized the same service we provided to artists was applicable to entrepreneurs as well.

Troy Carter

ServiceSameStartedWellArtists

I'm one of the writers that would die if I didn't say what I needed to say. For me, it's a matter of survival to write.

Mary Lambert

MeDieSurvivalSayMatterWrite

Oh, yeah, I've always thought of covering some of my influences like Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder.

Jon Secada

ThoughtWonderAlwaysInfluencesOh

Whatever feminists may say about their only advocating choices, everyone knows the truth: Feminism regards work outside the home as more elevating, honorable, and personally productive than full-time mothering and making a home.

Dennis Prager

WorkHomeTruthChoicesSayOutside

I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember.

Chaz Bono

FeelRememberBackI CanComfortable

I don't believe that wishing works. I think we get the things we work for.

Brendan Fraser

WorkBelieveThinkThingsGetWorks

I can't live without my cup of tea. When I was a judge on 'America's Next Top Model,' they had to put me in a hotel where I had my own kitchen, because they can't make tea in America. I was happy then because I could make my own.

Twiggy

LiveTeaHappyMeKitchenJudge

In 2009, Hamas was relatively new to power. It had won elections just three years earlier and was flexing its newfound strength via a war with its old enemy, Israel, which it officially wants destroyed.

Richard Engel

StrengthPowerWarEnemyNewThree

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, 'the press.'

Marianne Faithfull

GreatFocusSeeingMonsterBig

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