"Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences."

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Source : Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.118, New Directions Publishing

Octavio Paz

#Resurrection Quotes #Poetry Is Quotes

“If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Valley of Horses (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Two”, p.342, Bantam
“Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.”
“Vocation does not come from willfulness. It comes from listening. I must listen to my life and try to understand what it is truly about-quite apart from what I would like it to be about-or my life will never represent anything real in the world, no matter how earnest my intentionsâ€¦..Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. I must listen for the truths and values at the heart of my own identity, not the standards by which I must live-but the standards by which I cannot help but live if I am living my own life.”

Source : Parker J. Palmer (2015). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.13, John Wiley & Sons
“Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.”

Source : Letter to Maine Whig State Central Committee, 9 Aug. 1856
“Trust Love, nor fear to soar upon his track. The wings that bore to Heaven will bear thee back.”
“The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience.”
“When you're listening to music, you listen to it with a friend one day and it sounds one way. You listen to it with another friend the next day, and it sounds a little different. Sometimes the greatest pleasure of listening is not the music that you're listening to; it's the person that you're listening to it with.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I am not particularly interested in saving time; I prefer to enjoy it.”

Source : Eduardo Galeano (1997). “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent”, p.11, NYU Press

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