Coda

Octavio PazOctavio Paz

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Perhaps to love is to learn
to walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
like the oak and the linden of the fable.
To learn to see.
Your glance scattered seeds.
It planted a tree.
     I talk
because you shake its leaves.
Octavio Paz
About the poet

Octavio Paz

1914 - 1998/Male/MexicanA writer, poet, and diplomat, Octavio Paz Lozano wrote poems influenced by Marxism, surrealism, and existentialism, Buddhism and Hinduism. (wikipedia)

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