Octavio Paz
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
—Octavio Paz, Alternating Current
Posted on May 21, 2003 at 10:54 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
—Octavio Paz, Alternating Current, 1967
Posted on July 25, 2002 at 7:58 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—Octavio Paz, Alternating Current
Posted on July 30, 2001 at 1:27 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—Octavio Paz, Alternating Current
Posted on February 22, 2001 at 6:27 AM
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