Octavio Paz
Mexican · 1914–1998
Nobel Prize-winning Mexican poet and essayist whose work explored identity, solitude, and the convergence of Eastern and Western thought with lyrical intensity.
Wikipedia ↗“La soledad es el hecho más profundo de la condición humana.”
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“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”
“El otro no existe: esto es la fe racional, la incurable creencia de la razón humana. Identidad = realidad, como si a fin de cuentas todo hubiera de ser absoluta y necesariamente uno y lo mismo.”
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“The other does not exist: this is rational faith, the incurable belief of human reason. Identity = reality, as if, in the end, everything must necessarily be one and the same.”
“Leer un poema es oírlo con los ojos; oírlo es verlo con los oídos.”
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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.”
“El amor es la invención perpetua, el comienzo perpetuo.”
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“Love is the power that moves the sun and the other stars – no, love is the perpetual invention, the perpetual beginning.”
“Entre lo que veo y digo, entre lo que digo y callo, entre lo que callo y sueño, entre lo que sueño y olvido: la poesía.”
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“Between what I see and what I say, between what I say and what I keep silent, between what I keep silent and what I dream, between what I dream and what I forget: poetry.”