Quotes by Paz, Octavio

Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal languag >>

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Quotations about Modern and Modernism

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Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once.

Paz, Octavio