More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
To love is to undress our names.
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
Every moment is nothing without end.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
