14 Quotes by Octavio Paz about Poetry

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    The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.

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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.

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    Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

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    Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

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