More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
To love is to undress our names.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
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.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
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.
Every moment is nothing without end.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Light is time thinking about itself.
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
