"If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide."

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Octavio Paz

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“Actually the action called a kiss represented nothing more for me than some place where my spirit could seek shelter.”
“My favorite thing to hear from people is, 'I left the theater and couldn't stop thinking about it.' You want your work to have an impact after they leave the theater. It's the equivalent of leaving a musical humming a show tune.”
“Losing is like my ex-wife... it's a b****, and it takes a bigger man than me to live with it.”
“If I had someone buttering me up, maybe I'd have worked out. You don't even know where I came from. Nobody wants to come out here.”
“The world is perfect. As you question your mind, this becomes more and more obvious.”
“I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words”

Source : Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.14, Schocken
“Tears never were worth the effort of crying them.”

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