“Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.” SpeakQualityPoetHearing Author:Octavio Paz
“I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken?” WorldActionSpeakStarsSawsConversationDialoguePhrasesGiantsPausesCricketBlinkSyllables Author:Octavio Paz
“Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.” IfsDifferentTodayLostSpeakLanguageSpaceTomorrowUniversalWestTongueEastYesterdayFormerConfusedHere And NowDifferent TimesCoherenceUniversal LanguageEast And WestYesterday And Tomorrow Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.” MenMaySometimesPastFallLostSpeakLanguageMarkOriginalsKingdomsInnocenceOur TimePossessedMarvelous Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
“By diminishing the value of silence, publicity has also diminished that of language. The two are inseparable: knowing how to speak has always meant knowing how to keep silent, knowing that there are times when one should say nothing.” ShouldTwoValuesSpeakLanguageSilenceKnowingSilentPublicityInseparable Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
“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.” ThinkingMenDoeDifferentSpeakConversation Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
