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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.
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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
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.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
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.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Light is time thinking about itself.
