Quotes of the Week - Feb 2, 2010:
"If vibrators could light the barbie and kill spiders in the bathtub,
would we need men at all." -- Kathy Lette, novelist, wonders whether
marriage has had its day.
"There'll be a population of demented old people, like an invasion
of terrible immigrants." -- Martin Amis, novelist, who called for
euthanasia booths on street corners in Britain where elderly people
could end their lives "with a Martini and a medal".
"I'd rather be a really good one-term President than a mediocre
two-term President." -- US President Obama, vows to continue to
press for health care reform.
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Octavio Paz Quotes, Famous Octavio Paz Quotes Quotations
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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