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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
Deserve your dream.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
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.
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.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
