Octavio Paz

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#individuality #loneliness #selfhood #solitude #communication

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings ↗

— Octavio Paz

#language #society #grammar

Стихи нельзя объяснить - только понять. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#philosophy #poetry #literary-criticism

У влюбленного в безмолвие поэта есть одно спасение - речь. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#philosophy #poetry #literary-criticism

Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#criticism #grammar #meanings #social

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#ears #eyes #hear #our #poem

Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#different #does #man #rather #speak

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#being #condition #fact #human #human condition

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#art #criticism #distinguishes #modern #modern art

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. ↗

— Octavio Paz

#change #dialectic #lies #neither #nor