More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
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.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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.
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.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
