Cesare Pavese
View AuthorThe art of living is the art of knowing how to believe in lies.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorEroticism and poetry: the first is a metaphor for sexuality, the second an eroticization of language.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorEach poem is unique. In each work, all of poetry beats, to a greater or lesser degree. Each reader seeks something in the poem. And it's not unusual that they find it: It was already inside them.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorPoetry must be a little dry to burn well, and thus illuminate and warm us.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorWhoever has seen hope does not forget it. They seek it under the skies and among all men.
Charles Péguy
View AuthorA great philosophy is not the one that establishes the definitive truth, it is the one that produces unease.
Benito Pérez Galdós
View AuthorExperience is a flame that only shines by burning.
Fernando Pessoa
View AuthorBeing a poet is not an ambition of mine, it is my way of being alone.
Fernando Pessoa
View AuthorLiterature, like any form of art, is the confession that life is not enough.
Laurence J. Peter
View AuthorOnly one thing is more painful than learning from experience, and that is, not learning from experience.
Laurence J. Peter
View AuthorIf you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else.
Jean Piaget
View AuthorIntelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.