More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Every moment is nothing without end.
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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.
