Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano (March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1982 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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“Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)
“‘Art’ is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers.... What we call art is a game.”
—Octavio Paz (b. 1914)