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Octavio Paz Quotes: Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
         

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.


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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
         



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