| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43921 |
| QUOTATION: | Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Octavio Paz (b. 1914), Mexican poet. “André Breton or the Quest of the Beginning,” Alternating Current (1967). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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