"Poet: gardener of epitaphs." — Octavio Paz

"Poet: gardener of epitaphs."

— Octavio Paz

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80 Quotes by Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz has 80 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different…
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be…
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can…
Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies…
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time…
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes…
Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks.…
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood…
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity.…
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

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More Design Quotes

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I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating… — Giorgio Armani
Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and… — Lance Armstrong
The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions… — Mary Astell
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be… — Marcus Aurelius
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. — Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur. — Red Adair
You don't take a photograph, you make it. — Ansel Adams
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete… — Douglas Adams
Designers are very fickle. I never wanted to be a victim of that. You're in one minute, out the next. — Tyra Banks

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