More Quotes by Octavio Paz
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
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.
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
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.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
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.
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
