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better to be stoned in the plaza than to turn the mill that squeezes out the juice of life, that turns eternity into empty hours, minutes into prisons, and time into copper coins and abstract shit
— Octavio Paz Sunstone/Piedra De Sol
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Deserve your dream.
— Octavio Paz
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
— Octavio Paz
Tags: liberty, risks, poetry, experience
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
— Octavio Paz
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
— Octavio Paz
Tags: more, vision, world, poetry
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.
— Octavio Paz
Tags: consciousness, opening, world, alone
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