More Quotes by Octavio Paz
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Every moment is nothing without end.
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and pecularities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death. The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us. Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
