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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
The world is born when two people kiss
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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
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.
