Octavio Paz Quotes
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
Quotes to Explore
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I pledged to become the world's greatest expert in a field I knew nothing about.
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Golf was never a religion to me.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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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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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
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But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
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DMs are a lot like email - and should have the same privacy protections as a mailed letter.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I never thought I'd live this long. It sounds funny because I still think of myself as a kid.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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I play Rock 'n' Roll, that's what I do.
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To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts.
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A sister is like yourself in a different movie, a movie that stars you in a different life.
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I feel comfortable singing in the great cathedrals of the world because I spent so much time as a child singing in church. And it isn't very different. Of course, nothing looks quite like Notre Dame de Paris.
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Abstraction and luxury are the guard dogs of the upper class. The upper class wants people to have ambition and gumption because, if you do, you will participate and you'll move through society into a different class structure.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
