More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
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.
Light is time thinking about itself.
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society.
Deserve your dream.
To love is to undress our names.
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
