Octavio Paz's Perspectives on Politics: The Other Voice‪.‬

"La historia de la literatura moderna, desde los romanticos alemanes e ingleses hasta nuestros dias, es la historia de una larga pasion desdichada por la politica. De Coleridge a Mayakovski, la Revolucion ha sido la gran Diosa, la Amada eterna y la gran Puta de poetas y novelistas. La politica lleno de humo el cerebro de Malraux, enveneno los insomnios de Cesar Vallejo, mato a Garcia Lorca, abandono al viejo Machado en un pueblo de los Pirineos, encerro a Pound en un manicomio, deshonro a Neruda y Aragon, ha puesto en ridiculo a Sartre, le ha dado demasiado tarde la razon a Breton ... Pero no podemos renegar de la politica; seria peor que escupir contra el cielo: escupir contra nosotros mismos." [The history of the modern literature, from the German and English romanticists to our days, is the history of a long discontented passion for politics. From Coleridge to Mayakovski, the Revolution has been the great Goddess, the eternal Lover and the great Whore of poets and novelists. Politics filled Malraux's brain with smoke, poisoned Cesar Vallejo's insomnias, killed Garcia Lorca, abandoned the old Machado in a small town of the Pyrenees, locked Pound in an asylum, dishonored Neruda and Aragon, made a fool of Sartre, gave reason to Breton but too late ... However we cannot renounce to politics; it would be worse than spitting against the sky: it would be like spitting against ourselves.] Octavio Paz, "La letra y el cetro" (1972). (1)