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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Born: Mar 31, 1914
Died: Apr 19, 1998

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Analogy, Objects, Poems, New, Motion, Reproduce, Which, Transparent, Rotary, Mechanism, Play, Universal

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