More Quotes by Octavio Paz
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Every moment is nothing without end.
The world is born when two people kiss
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
