"Whatever her or his social identity, the writer is, by the nature of the act of writing, someone who strives for communication and connection, someone who searches, through language, to keep alive the conversation with what Octavio Paz has called "the lost community." Even if what's written feels like a note thrust into a bottle to be thrown into the sea."
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Adrienne Rich, Arts of the Possible (2001)
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Octavio Paz
1914 – 1998
mexikanischer Schriftsteller und Diplomat
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