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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
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.
Light is time thinking about itself.
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 read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
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.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
