Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
More Quotes from Octavio Paz:
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it he cannot grow or mature.Octavio Paz
To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see.
Octavio Paz
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Octavio Paz
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
Octavio Paz
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