More Quotes by Octavio Paz
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Light is time thinking about itself.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
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.
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Every moment is nothing without end.
