More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Every moment is nothing without end.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
To love is to undress our names.
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
