“A Tale of Two Gardens”
Octavio Paz
10 quotes
“We are condemned”
“Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy”
“I am a man: little do I last”
“Between going and staying the day wavers,”
“Motion", as translated by Eliot Weinberger, in Collected Poems 1957”
“If you are the amber mare”
“To fight evil is to fight ourselves. Itinerary”
“Only now have I understood that there was a secret relationship between what I have called my expulsion from the present and the writing of poetry . Poetry is in love with the instant and seeks to relive it in the poem, thus separating it from sequential time and turning it into a fixed present. But at that time I wrote without wondering why I was doing it. I was searching for the gateway to the present: I wanted to belong to my time and to my century. A little later this obsession became a fixed idea: I wanted to be a modern poet. My search for modernity had begun. Nobel Lecture”
“There can be no society without poetry , but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot. "Signs in Rotation" (1967) in The Bow and the Lyre : The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History (1973) as translated by Ruth L.C. Simms, p. 249”