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we do not see with our carnal eyes

PERCEPTIBLE REALITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN A SOURCE of surprises to me. Of proofs as well. In a long-ago article, written in 1940, I referred to poetry as “the testimony of the senses”. True testimony: its images are palpable, visible and audible. To be sure, poetry is made up of words linked together, wh…

—p.1 The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism The Kingdoms of Pan (1) by Octavio Paz
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I write about what I have lived and am living

[...] To me, poetry and thought are a system of communicating vessels. The source of both is my life. I write about what I have lived and am living. To live is also to think, and sometimes to cross that border beyond which feeling and thinking become one: poetry. Meanwhile, the pages on which I had…

—p.ix Preface (vii) by Octavio Paz
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