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To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.
To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.
Approximate author period: c. 1956 AD · modern
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- Octavio Paz
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- Approximate author period: c. 1956 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Octavio Paz: life dates 1914 to 1998. Wikidata Q46739, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46739 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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