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- Language
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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
- Ecclesiastical
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An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
- Nature
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Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent to the dogmas of modern times, progress and the cult of the future.
- Morality
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
- Future
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A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
- History
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
- Pure
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We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as a world on the other side, not only distant in time but across the cultural divide.
- Defines
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As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the form of a condemnation: the 'other' is the barbarian.
- Die
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Literatures, like trees and plants, are born of a land and in it flourish and die. But literatures, also like plants, may be carried abroad to take root in a foreign soil.
- Inspiration
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Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about justice, peace, or war, everything, without excluding our rejections of Marxism, is impregnated with Marxism.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
- Distinctive
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