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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
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.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
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.
