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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
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 civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
The world is born when two people kiss
Deserve your dream.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
