Creative Quotations from . . .
Octavio Paz
(1914-1998) born on Mar 31
Mexican "poet, writer, diplomat". He is recognized as one of the major literary figures in Latin America after World War II. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990.
 
   
F
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

R
"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."
A
""Art" is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. . . . What we call art is a game."
N
Deserve your dream.
K
"What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: ""Alternating Current," "Recapitulations," 1967."
R: ""Alternating Current," "Andrp Breton or the Quest of the Beginning," 1967."
A: ""Alternating Current," "Andrp Breton or the Quest of the Beginning," 1967."
N: "In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
K: From an Internet collection of quotations.



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