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Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.

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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.

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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

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Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is a bridge between nature and us. Technology changes nature in a more radical and decisive manner: it throws it out.

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To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.

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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

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All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.

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Biography

Nationality: Mexican

Type: Poet

Born: March 31st, 1914

Died: April 19th, 1998

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