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Octavio Paz Quotes about Poetry

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

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

Octavio Paz
Eye, Poetry, Ears
Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.66, Arcade Publishing

Whatever is not stone is light

Octavio Paz
Light, Mexican, Poetry
Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

Octavio Paz
Art, Struggle, Poetry

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