More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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.
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.
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
