More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
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.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
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.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
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.
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Deserve your dream.
