Octavio Paz Quotes

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

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• To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Great
  • Language
  • Limits

• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Words
  • Faith
  • End

• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

  

  Fatou Bensouda
  • People
  • Words
  • Focus

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Book
  • Words
  • Years

• I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the language that musicians can use to treat each other or, like, the way that you can see it dehumanize and the way that it can feel like boot camp.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Deep
  • Language

• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Purpose
  • Best
  • Picture

• Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Different
  • Words
  • Learning

• I think you can really tell a good actor if you can put a camera on them and they can just talk and emote and react and you don't have to keep cutting away from them, because they are the language and the behavior. It's all a tour-de-force performance.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Good
  • Language
  • Cutting

• It is very difficult to work in another language, and it is also very challenging.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Work
  • Language
  • Difficult

• That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Time
  • Dark
  • Personality

• Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home in language.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • People
  • Home
  • Language

• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Always
  • Management
  • Beliefs

• What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone plants and trees, or you compose with events; the Sheriff's officer, or whatever.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Words
  • Trees
  • Plants

• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Up
  • Real
  • Taken

• It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Words
  • Simple

• My words are little jars For you to take and put upon a shelf. Their shapes are quaint and beautiful, And they have many pleasant colours and lustres To recommend them. Also the scent from them fills the room With sweetness of flowers and crushed grasses.

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Beautiful
  • Words
  • Flowers

• There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • God
  • May
  • Words

• Thunder-spasms the waking be Into Life from Apathy: Life, not Death, is in the gale, - Let the coming Doom prevail!

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • Life
  • Death

• I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.

  

  Joan Allen

• My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Good
  • Game
  • Moving

• The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Language
  • Beliefs