Quotes by Paz, Octavio

Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our >>

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this >>

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic betw >>

Quotations about Language

Viewed freely, the English language is the accretion and growth of eve >>

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargo >>

I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the >>

Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.

Paz, Octavio