"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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"Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes."
Octavio Paz"I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts."
Octavio Paz"Deserve your dream."
Octavio Paz"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary."
Octavio Paz"Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."
Octavio Paz"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."
Octavio Paz"Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision."
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