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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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.
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
The world is born when two people kiss
Light is time thinking about itself.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
To love is to undress our names.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Every moment is nothing without end.
