| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 43923 |
| QUOTATION: | If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. |
| 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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