More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Every moment is nothing without end.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
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.
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.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
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.
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.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
