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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
— Octavio Paz
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Deserve your dream.
— Octavio Paz
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
— Octavio Paz
Tags: liberty, risks, poetry, experience
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
— Octavio Paz
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
— Octavio Paz
Tags: more, vision, world, poetry
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
— Octavio Paz
Tags: consciousness, opening, world, alone
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