"In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world,……" — Edward Hirsch
"In Náhuatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods."
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Edward Hirsch
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16 Quotes by Edward Hirsch
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Works of art imitate and provoke other works of art, the process is the source of art itself.
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Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of…
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I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It…
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Poetry connects us to what is deepest in ourselves. It gives us access to our own feelings, which are often…
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One of the deep fundamentals of poetry is the recurrence of sounds, syllables, words, phrases, lines, and stanzas. Repetition can…
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Reading poetry is an adventure in renewal, a creative act, a perpetual beginning, a rebirth of wonder.
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A symbol is an important thing. That is why we chose an Aztec eagle. It gives pride...When people see it…
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last…
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In 1491 the Inka ruled the greatest empire on earth. Bigger than Ming Dynasty China, bigger than Ivan the Great’s…
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If the European discovery had been delayed for a century or two, it is possible that the Aztec in Mexico…
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If you want a television, you go out and work for it and you buy it. If you want to…
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In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot…
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To put it in a nutshell, the Central and South American high cultures of antiquity were entirely worthy of comparison…
— Joseph Needham
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The Spaniards are perfectly right to govern these barbarians of the New World and adjacent islands; they are in prudence,…
— Juan Gines de Sepulveda
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The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot.…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Everything that is really Mexican is either Aztec or Spanish.
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