Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
Octavio Paz
Related A Great man is he who does not lose his childlike heart. MENCIUS (MENGZI MENG-TSE) It is true that the poet does not directly address his neighbors; but he does address a great congre... RICHARD WILBUR The great man is he who does not lose his child-heart. MENCIUS The appetite for power, even for universal power, is only insane when there is no possibility of ind... SIMONE WEIL The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart. MENCIUS It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is les... TENNESSEE WILLIAMS If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he doe... GEORGE LOIS My hero is Jimmie Rodgers, ... He should be up there with Walt Whitman. STEVE FORBERT I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman's mind to be more like my own than any other man's li... GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS He who does not feel his friends to be the world to him, does not deserve that the world should hear... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A man can be himself only so long as he is alone;
if he does not love solitude, he will not love fre... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world... KAHLIL GIBRAN He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone. ANTONIO PORCHIA He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. LEONARDO DA VINCI A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many thin... COLTON A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love... ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of hi... FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. THEOPHILE GAUTIER Only when man succeeds in developing his reason and love further than he has done so far, only when ... ERICH FROMM It was someone from [Walt] Whitman ? I don't recall who. DON STRASSER The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will ... E. M. FORSTER His message of peace and love was universal. He is the man to whom the world owes a great debt of gr... HERMAN BOONE There is only one Lord of the Ring, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share powe... J.R.R. TOLKIEN When one does what is within his control, he knows his only weakness ; but when he does beyond his c... ANUJ SOMANY A man with a mission does not think in terms of his own success and failure. He does his work for wh... CHANDAN KUMAR DE The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menius. MENIUS The great man is he that does not lose his child's heart. -Menicus. MENICUS Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas... LIN YUTANG He invites the commission of a crime who does not forbid it, when
it is in his power to do so. SIR WALTER SCOTT The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he c... ARISTOTLE A person who can not accept another as she/he is will only have discord in their relationship. JIM GENOVESE Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his ... POPE BENEDICT XVI The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his mo... HENRY DAVID THOREAU More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value ... JOHN BURROUGHS Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. JEAN COCTEAU President Obama is one of the great political knife-fighters in modern history. He is a failed presi... BEN SHAPIRO Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of ... DAVID LODGE Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the w... FRANCIS PALGRAVE What would Walt Whitman do? GARTH RISK HALLBERG Nine times out of ten a man’s broad-mindedness is necessarily the narrowest thing about him. This ... G.K. CHESTERTON Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no m... AYN RAND There is little premium in poetry in a world that thinks of Pound and Whitman as a weight and a samp... ANNA QUINDLEN Quoting from Thomas Merton Dialogues With Silence The true contemplative is not one who pr... STEPHEN COPE Who prays at help in the Illusion of his Life does not understand that his only aid is death. SORIN CERIN Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. ISADORA DUNCAN The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that re... DAVID LLOYD GEORGE A great majority of people like only a person who is not in the elements of his own not one who is t... ANUJ SOMANY The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death co... SALVATORE QUASIMODO Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hop... ORISON SWETT MARDEN No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hop... ORISON SWETT MARDEN 'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. ROBERT GOTTLIEB Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his p... MAX WEBER The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. MENCIUS Mark brings a great deal of energy and enthusiasm to practices as well as games. Not only does he ha... CARL HUNCKLER He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not reall... THOMAS HARDY Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name. ANATOLE FRANCE Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great i... JOSE MARTI Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if... PABLO PICASSO Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM He turns off the techno-shit in his goggles. All it does is confuse him; he stands there reading sta... NEAL STEPHENSON It is only when a man tames his own demons that he becomes the king of himself if not of the world. JOSEPH CAMPBELL The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a r... GEORGE ORWELL The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. LEON BLUM Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ROBERT G. INGERSOLL Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide. BLAISE PASCAL The reason man does not experience his true cultural self is that until he experiences another self ... EDWARD T. HALL Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the l... GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge. RICHARD WHATLEY An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience... JAMES BALDWIN I have never read a line of Walt Whitman. MARY MACLANE He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal l... WILLIAM PENN The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of s... CONFUCIUS A man is a poet if difficulties inherent in his art provide him with ideas; he is not a poet if they... PAUL VALERY This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who... CRISTIANE SERRUYA A teacher who cannot explain any abstract subject to a child does not himself thoroughly understand ... FULTON J. SHEEN The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholes... WILLIAM JAMES The painter is, as to the execution of his work, a mechanic; but as to his conception and spirit and... FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER The great man is he who has not lost his child's heart. -Mecius. MECIUS When one is anxious only to live, he easily, in this solicitude, forgets the enjoyment of life. If h... MAX STIRNER Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work. ANATOLE FRANCE Because John is being John, people don't see his intensity. He wants to be a leader on this team. No... TONY AGNONE Fear even when morbid is not cowardice. That is the label we reserve for something that a man does... LORD MORAN Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his worl... DAVID BOWIE A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. CRISS JAMI He who promises more than he is able to perform, is false to himself; and he who does not perform wh... GEORGE SHELLEY After all, only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master o... LIN YUTANG He who does not reach the Great Wall is not a true man! MAO ZEDONG He who does not consider others' opinions does not deserve to have his considered in return. TROY PEW He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself. ALBERT SCHWEITZER He has been known to devour men.” “He’s a cannibal?” Cadmus asked in horror. SULARI GENTILL Walt Whitman who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictio... DAVID LODGE He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. CONFUCIUS
More Octavio Paz
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that ... OCTAVIO PAZ To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination o... OCTAVIO PAZ We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. OCTAVIO PAZ The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. OCTAVIO PAZ The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: his... OCTAVIO PAZ Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high pl... OCTAVIO PAZ The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no lon... OCTAVIO PAZ Our judgment and moral categories, our idea of the future, our opinions about the present or about j... OCTAVIO PAZ Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environmen... OCTAVIO PAZ Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming... OCTAVIO PAZ The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortu... OCTAVIO PAZ Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, t... OCTAVIO PAZ To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language. OCTAVIO PAZ Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history. OCTAVIO PAZ Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. OCTAVIO PAZ To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. OCTAVIO PAZ The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something... OCTAVIO PAZ Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us... OCTAVIO PAZ The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are ... OCTAVIO PAZ Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. OCTAVIO PAZ Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and... OCTAVIO PAZ Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being bec... OCTAVIO PAZ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art i... OCTAVIO PAZ Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something mi... OCTAVIO PAZ Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no differe... OCTAVIO PAZ If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of ... OCTAVIO PAZ What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism. OCTAVIO PAZ "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life ... OCTAVIO PAZ Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technolog... OCTAVIO PAZ Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone... OCTAVIO PAZ Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes th... OCTAVIO PAZ All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable an... OCTAVIO PAZ Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art... OCTAVIO PAZ The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twiste... OCTAVIO PAZ Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. OCTAVIO PAZ Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nin... OCTAVIO PAZ In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work... OCTAVIO PAZ When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the ... OCTAVIO PAZ For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative ... OCTAVIO PAZ Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the dist... OCTAVIO PAZ If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disrega... OCTAVIO PAZ As it defines itself, every society defines other societies. That definition almost always takes the... OCTAVIO PAZ Deserve your dream. OCTAVIO PAZ Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - tha... OCTAVIO PAZ In the works of Duchamp, space begins to walk and take on form; it becomes a machine that spins argu... OCTAVIO PAZ Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of d... OCTAVIO PAZ Art for Duchamp, all the arts, obey the same law: meta-irony is inherent in their very spirit. It is... OCTAVIO PAZ The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poe... OCTAVIO PAZ We twentieth-century Mexicans, even those of pure Indian descent, look on the pre-Columbian world as... OCTAVIO PAZ Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone... OCTAVIO PAZ Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. OCTAVIO PAZ Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us et... OCTAVIO PAZ What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life i... OCTAVIO PAZ To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to ... OCTAVIO PAZ The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging cla... OCTAVIO PAZ The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American e... OCTAVIO PAZ "What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. ... OCTAVIO PAZ Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is s... OCTAVIO PAZ A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who imp... OCTAVIO PAZ Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things. OCTAVIO PAZ Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indiffere... OCTAVIO PAZ Nuestra muerte ilumina nuestra vida. Si nuestra muerte carece de sentido, tampoco lo tuvo nuestra vi... OCTAVIO PAZ ...chases after it, mocks it, courts it, hugs it, sleeps with it; it is his favorite plaything and h... OCTAVIO PAZ Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and mora... OCTAVIO PAZ I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books th... OCTAVIO PAZ Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential i... OCTAVIO PAZ A saint speaks with God or with himself, two forms of silence. OCTAVIO PAZ An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a cens... OCTAVIO PAZ Merece lo que sueñas. OCTAVIO PAZ Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reprod... OCTAVIO PAZ When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. OCTAVIO PAZ Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. OCTAVIO PAZ In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspen... OCTAVIO PAZ An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work ... OCTAVIO PAZ la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa... OCTAVIO PAZ Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival. OCTAVIO PAZ I have to respect what they say, but I think I'll be in the game before June. It depends on how I do... OCTAVIO DOTEL Asian people have a unique way about them and a different sense of beauty. It's exotic to me. I ... PAZ VEGA I don't want to play only Latin women. I want to have roles in English. PAZ VEGA I'm not the new Penelope Cruz. I'm Paz Vega. There's only one Penelope and she's mar... PAZ VEGA My ambition is to not have to work any more. In 10 years I want to stop, and I want to be living wit... PAZ VEGA People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it... PAZ VEGA We have been making steady progress in moving this institute forward. HAROLD PAZ There are individuals and families desperate for new discoveries and the possibility of treatments a... HAROLD PAZ [People from] the U.S. miss out in learning about this. There are many things in common in all citie... FRANCISCO PAZ Residents in the area said they heard an explosion. Air rescue teams are traveling to the area right... FRANCISCO PAZ The plane went out of control and crashed. There are no survivors. FRANCISCO PAZ Residents in the area said they heard an explosion. FRANCISCO PAZ Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident. FRANCISCO PAZ They asked what kind of problems they were having, and the pilots indicated that it was a technical ... FRANCISCO PAZ This process took place mainly after September 11 and it became the main field of activity at least ... REUVEN PAZ I love biker chicks! PAZ DE LA HUERTA I love Frida Kahlo. PAZ DE LA HUERTA I love going to the hair salon. I'm Spanish. I think it's more of a Latina thing to go to th... PAZ DE LA HUERTA I think I'm attracted to outlaws because they make me feel safe inside, like a little child. PAZ DE LA HUERTA If I collect anything, it's lingerie. PAZ DE LA HUERTA Women have said the most malicious, disgusting things about me. But I know that when somebody commen... PAZ DE LA HUERTA I don't ever wear makeup. I steam my face. I put hot water to open pores and cold water to close... PAZ DE LA HUERTA