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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
To love is to undress our names.
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.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
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 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.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
