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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
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.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
To love is to undress our names.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.