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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
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.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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.
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.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
