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Quotes from Alternating Current — Octavio Paz

1914–1998 Mexico

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Their acts are a disturbance of order, not a criticism of it.

Alternating Current (1967)

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.

Alternating Current (1967)

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.

Alternating Current (1967)

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Alternating Current (1967)

"Art" is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers…what we call art is a game.

Alternating Current (1967)

We can now understand the true reason for their condemnation and its severity. The authorities aren’t suppressing a reprehensible practice or a crime. They are suppressing dissidence. … Prohibition is a battle against a contagion of the spirit — against an opinion.

Alternating Current (1967)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Octavio Paz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.