More Quotes by Octavio Paz
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
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 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.
Every moment is nothing without end.
Distraction is our habitual state. Not the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy, but the distraction of the person who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.
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.
