More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
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.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Deserve your dream.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
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.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
