Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes decisively poetic poetry
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention. Octavio Paz acceptattitudebegin Change image and share on social
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. Octavio Paz poetsoundwater Change image and share on social
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 consciousnessdiscoveryimpalpable Change image and share on social
Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ideanonsensicalpoem Change image and share on social
The thing about great poetry is we have no defenses against it. David Whyte defensegreatpoetry Change image and share on social
During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Latin America moved decisively away from military rule and toward civilian democracy. Stephen Kinzer 1970s1980samerica Change image and share on social