"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
- "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."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that’s in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that’s why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I’m really interested in that subject."― Sam Raimi
- "There is a wonderful Hungarian literature, especially in lyric poetry."― Gyorgy Ligeti
- "I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn’t read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene."― Peter Porter