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Quotes of the Week - January 17, 2012:
"Our campaign is about more than replacing a President. It is about
saving the soul of America." -- Republican Mitt Romney, US presidential
hopeful, after winning New Hampshire primary.
"Remember to look up at the stars and not down to your feet. Try
to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the universe
exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always
something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don't just
give up." -- Professor Stephen Hawking on his 70th birthday.
"American children had never seen a moving bosom before."
-- Actress Celia Imrie on the alarm caused by her low-cut dress in Nanny
McPhee.
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Octavio Paz Quotes, Famous Octavio Paz Quotes Quotations |
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a
crystal willow, a poplar of water,
a tall fountain the wind arches over,
a tree deep-rooted yet dancing still,
a course of a river that turns, moves on,
doubles back, and comes full circle,
forever arriving
Octavio Paz
Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated
by Eliot Weinberger |
I
travel your body, like the world,
your belly is a plaza full of sun,
your breasts two churches where blood
performs its own, parallel rites,
my glances cover you like ivy,
you are a city the sea assaults,
a stretch of ramparts split by the light
in two halves the color of peaches,
a domain of salt, rocks and birds,
under the rule of oblivious noon
Octavio Paz
Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated
by Eliot Weinberger |
I
travel your length, like a river,
I travel your body, like a forest,
like a mountain path that ends at a cliff
I travel along the edge of your thoughts,
and my shadow falls from your white forehead,
my shadow shatters, and I gather the pieces
and go with no body, groping my way
Octavio Paz
Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated
by Eliot Weinberger |
The
two took off their clothes and made love
to protect our ration of paradise and time,
to touch our roots, to rescue ourselves,
to rescue the inheritance stolen from us
by the thieves of life centuries ago,
the two took off their clothes and kissed
because two bodies, naked and entwined,
leap over time, they are invulnerable,
nothing can touch them, they return to the source,
there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,
no yesterday, no names, the truth of two
in a single body, a single soul,
oh total being . . .
Octavio Paz
Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated
by Eliot Weinberger |
to
love is to battle, if two kiss
the world changes, desires take flesh
thoughts take flesh, wings sprout
on the backs of the slave, the world is real
and tangible, wine is wine, bread
regains its savor, water is water,
to love is to battle, to open doors,
to cease to be a ghost with a number
forever in chains, forever condemned
by a faceless master;
the world changes
if two look at each other and see
Octavio Paz
Piedra de Sol (The Sun Stone), translated
by Eliot Weinberger |
Solitude
is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only
being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
The Labyrinth of Solitude |
Modern
man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this
wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare
in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the
mirrors of reason.
Octavio Paz
The Labyrinth of Solitude |
Art
is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention
of philosophers. . . . What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz |
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 Paz |
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 Paz |
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| Octavio
Paz - Mexican poet, critic and diplomat. Born 1914. Died 1998. Nobel
Prize for Literature 1990. |
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