More Quotes by Octavio Paz
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
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.
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.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
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.
The world is born when two people kiss
