Octavio Paz Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• Whatever is not stone is light

  Octavio Paz

  Light, Mexican, Poetry

  Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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

  Octavio Paz

  Eye, Poetry, Ears

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.66, Arcade Publishing

• What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Struggle, Poetry

• Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity, which makes it return. The poem is an original and unique creation, but it is also reading and recitation: participation. The poet creates it; the people, by recitation, re-create it. Poet and reader are two moments of a single reality.

  Octavio Paz

  Art, Reading, Unique

  Octavio Paz (2009). “The Bow and the Lyre: The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History”, p.28, University of Texas Press

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