Octavio Paz Quotes
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are changing, I've seen people dying, so that's the train we are all on.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I always said there's no way I'd work in America because I'm too weird and I'm too old, but somehow it's happened.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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I've got to be honest, there's no pleasure when you're working.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
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I always try to keep one very feminine quality to my style.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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When you hear bosses talk about their best salespeople, they often refer to them as rock stars. It's the highest praise your boss can give someone on your team.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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I did not compose my work as one might put on a church vestment... rather it sprung from the truly fervent faith of my heart, such as I have felt it since my childhood.
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
