"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears." ― Octavio Paz Topic(s): Poetry More From Octavio Paz "Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game." "Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two." "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." More In Poetry "I’ve always written, all my life, and when I was very young I developed an interest in poetry."― Jeffery Deaver "Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is."― James Broughton "I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson’s poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano."― Gordon Getty