Octavio Paz (1914-1998)
Octavio Paz was a popular and Nobel Prize winning Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat. Check these links as a beginning exploration of his life and works http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavio_Paz
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1990/paz-bio.html
A few of his quotes:
“Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.”
“The Mexican, in contrast, is familiar with death. (He) jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.”
“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers…what we call art is a game”
Two of my favorite quotes by Paz are the following:
“Deserve your dream.”
“Modern man like to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason”
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