More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Every moment is nothing without end.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
Believing ourselves to be possessors of absolute truth degrades us: we regard every person whose way of thinking is different from ours as a monster and a threat and by so doing turn our own selves into monsters and threats to our fellows.
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
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 universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Deserve your dream.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
