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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.
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.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
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
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Deserve your dream.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
