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.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
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.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Light is time thinking about itself.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
