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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
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.
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
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.
To love is to undress our names.
Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.
The world is born when two people kiss
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.
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
