“Images, memories, fragmentary shapes and forms all those sensations, visions, half-thoughts that appear and disappear in the wink of an eye, as one sets forth to meet.... The path also disappears as I think of it, as I say it.” ThinkingEyeFormMemoriesHalfVisionPathShapesDisappearSensations Book:The Monkey Grammarian Source: The Monkey Grammarian
“Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life” WorldCultureCommunityViewsPossibilityDisappearDiminish Author:Octavio Paz
“What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life” WorldDifferentLife IsCultureDifferencesViewsProgressPossibilityCivilizationIdealsDisappearAttractionTechniqueFavorsCultDiminishEliminatingUniformityImplicitSuppressingRepulsionAttraction And Repulsion Author:Octavio Paz
“We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.” WantLittlesRealEndsActionFormLeftKnowingAliveDoorsAirPerceptionBirdEmptyEmbraceWingsDisappearPursueFlightManageInstantEncountersTrapsHandfulMetamorphosisSyllablesIncessantReal OnesDoors Of Perception Author:Octavio Paz
“For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.” MenLanguageDisappear Author:Octavio Paz
