Mahmoud Abbas
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Octavio Paz Lozanowas a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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About the Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozanowas a Mexican poet and diplomat. For his body of work, he was awarded the 1977 Jerusalem Prize, the 1981 Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature.
13 Quotes by Octavio Paz
- 1.
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 2.
Deserve your dream.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 3.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 4.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 5.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 6.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 7.
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 8.
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.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 9.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 10.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 11.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 12.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat
- 13.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Octavio PazMexican writer, poet and diplomat