Octavio Paz
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers ... What we call art is a game.
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The Human condition's profoundest fact is solitude, for man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another.
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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.
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Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing.
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Literature is an answer to the questions that society asks itself about itself, but this answer is almost always unexpected.
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world... its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, he chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition, for man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another.