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Octavio Paz
“La mucha luz es como la mucha sombra: no deja ver.”
Octavio Paz
tags: luz, sombra

Octavio Paz
“Firmly planted. Not fallen from on high: sprung up from below. Ochre, the color of burnt honey. The color of a sun buried a thousand years ago and dug up only yesterday. Fresh green and orange stripes running across its still-warm body. Circles, Greek frets: scattered traces of a lost alphabet? The belly of a woman heavy with child, the neck of a bird. If you cover and uncover its mouth with the palm of your hand, it answers you with a deep murmur, the sound of bubbling water welling up from its depths; if you tap its sides with your knuckles, it gives a tinkling laugh of little silver coins falling on stones. It has many tongues: it speaks of the language of clay and minerals, of air currents flowing between canyon walls, of washerwomen as they scrub, of angry skies, of rain. A vessel of baked clay: do not put it in a glass case alongside rare precious objects. It would look quite out of place. Its beauty is related to the liquid that it contains and to the thirst that it quenches. Its beauty is corporal: I see it, I touch it, I smell it, I hear it. If it is empty, It must be filled; if it is full, it must be emptied. I take it by the shaped handle as I would take a woman by the arm, I lift it up, I tip over a pitcher into which I pour milk or pulque - lunar liquids that open and close the doors of dawn and dark, waking a sleeping.”
Octavio Paz

“If you seek creative ideas go walking.
Angels whisper to a man when he goes for
a walk.”
Raymond I. OD Myers

Washington Irving
“Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.”
Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories

Octavio Paz
“I do not condemn the cult of pleasure; I lament the general vulgarity.”
Octavio Paz

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