More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
The world is born when two people kiss
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
Every moment is nothing without end.
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
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.
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.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
