Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of ph…

Octavio Paz
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. ✨ Octavio Paz (1991). On Poets and Others, p.74, Arcade Publishing
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I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature. ✨ Octavio Paz (1990). Conjunctions and Disjunctions, p.125, Arcade Publishing
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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
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves i … ▶

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. ✨ Octavio Paz (1991). On Poets and Others, p.74, Arcade Publishing

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