More Quotes by Octavio Paz
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Deserve your dream.
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.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
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.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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.
The world is born when two people kiss
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
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.
