More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
Light is time thinking about itself.
Deserve your dream.
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
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.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
