More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
Every moment is nothing without end.
Light is time thinking about itself.
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.
The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death
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.
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.
