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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
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.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
To love is to undress our names.
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.
We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity."
A civilization that denies death ends by denying 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.
