Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences. ✨ Octavio Pa…

Octavio Paz
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Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences. ✨ Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). Selected Poems, p.118, New Directions Publishing
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