Quotes by mexican authors

Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth. Octavio Paz
Nature Me People Will Nation Despite Insistence Seems Something Periods Revealing Question Itself Essays Often Psychology Which Certain Illusory Growth
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate. Octavio Paz
Words Language Poet Whatever Convictions Object More Poetic Concerned His Than Essentially Beliefs Activity Designate
To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises. Octavio Paz
Work Old Value Invention Worlds Unknown Lies Area Combination New New Forms Revelations Surprises Discovered Discovery Unfamiliar Newness Forms Us Exploration Novel
In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins arguments and philosophizes; it resists movement with delay and delay with irony. Octavio Paz
Walk Space Delay Argument Machine Take Becomes Duchamp Begins Irony Movement Form Works
We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act. Octavio Paz
Time Mind Aim Dread Along Reaching Without Go Reverse End Fixed Same Same Time Act Search
Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant. Octavio Paz
Nature Our Neither Totality Objects Well Call Am Nor Accomplice Yes Surrounds Confidant Processes Us Creates Aware
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? Octavio Paz
Life Feelings Own Our Project Guide Way See Proper Onto Also Attribute Passions Sensations Them Things
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
Analogy Objects Poems New Motion Reproduce Which Transparent Rotary Mechanism Play Universal
Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing. Octavio Paz
Writing Same Thing Translation Universe Says Totally Something Also Metaphor Reflects Same Human Different Thing
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different. Octavio Paz
Same Thing Others Say Poem Poems Part Same Different Unique Each Thing
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. Octavio Paz
Risks Experience Liberty Poet Poem Poetry Writes He Himself Verse Each Chances
In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects. Octavio Paz
Change Language Changed Must Objectivity Objects Verbal Itself Sensation Sensations Order Turned Agent Thing Things
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. Octavio Paz
Great Language Poet Someone Limits His Transcends Means Who Painter
Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future. Octavio Paz
Future Nature World Progress Harmony Indifferent Poetry Hostile Genre Cult Times Modern Modern Times Modern World Innermost
An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence. Octavio Paz
Work Understanding Tribunal Must Leads Said Cannot Sentence Us Include Her Orthodoxy Speech
We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide. Octavio Paz
Time World Pure Other Side Distant Those Indian Only Divide Look Cultural Mexicans Across Descent Even
As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian. Octavio Paz
Every Society Other Defines Definition Takes Almost Always Condemnation Itself Form Barbarian Societies
Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism. Octavio Paz
War Future Justice Peace Judgment Our Everything Moral About Marxism Idea Excluding Categories Without Opinions Present Rejections
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom. Octavio Paz
Freedom Man Struggle Generation Political Long Our Favor Has-Been My Generation Been Intellectual Century
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. Octavio Paz
Work Art Say Says Something More Higher Higher Level Lays Almost Always Artist Unfaithful Different Wanted Creator Level
As each country looks to meet their emissions reduction, energy efficiency, or renewable energy goals, they will look to cities as places where transformational change can make the most difference. Patricia Espinosa
Change Goals Will Country Energy Meet Cities Emissions Look Most Looks Make Renewable Renewable Energy Reduction Efficiency Difference Where Places Energy Efficiency Each
We have to be reminded that we still live in a world that relies a lot on fossil fuels, and that transition to new and renewable sources is not always and in all cases possible from one day to the next. Patricia Espinosa
Day World Live One Day Possible Cases Reminded New Renewable Always Still Sources Lot Transition Fuels Next Fossil Fossil Fuels
The ability of communities to meet their most basic needs - food, water, energy, sanitation - is threatened by climate change. Patricia Espinosa
Food Needs Change Basic Needs Water Energy Meet Ability Threatened Most Climate Climate Change Sanitation Communities Basic
Including women in climate policy and solutions can enhance the results, leading to more economic growth and sustainable outcomes. However, we cannot take for granted that gender equality and women's empowerment in the field of climate change and sustainable development will happen automatically. Patricia Espinosa
Change Women Equality Take For Granted Will Gender Sustainable Development Field We Cannot Outcomes Solutions More Economic Results Economic Growth Take Development Leading Policy Empowerment Climate Climate Change However Sustainable Happen Automatically Cannot Granted Including Enhance Growth
The impacts of extreme weather are already creating chaos. Patricia Espinosa
Weather Chaos Extreme Impacts Creating
National governments alone cannot deliver lasting prosperity without a transformation of social and economic development that seeks to minimise risk and seize the opportunity we have. Patricia Espinosa
Alone Economic Development Prosperity Opportunity National Transformation Lasting Seeks Risk Economic Seize Deliver Development Without Governments Cannot Social
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