Octavio Paz Quotes
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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
— Octavio Paz
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
— Octavio Paz
The past reappears because it is a hidden present.
— Octavio Paz
Death is the mother of forms.
— Octavio Paz
Without democracy freedom is a chimera
— Octavio Paz
A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
— Octavio Paz
If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.
— Octavio Paz
To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see.
— Octavio Paz
Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.
— Octavio Paz
Everything is language.
— Octavio Paz
Poet: gardener of epitaphs.
— Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.
— Octavio Paz
Loving means getting rid of names.
— Octavio Paz
To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
— Octavio Paz
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
— Octavio Paz
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language.
— Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact
— Octavio Paz
Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
— Octavio Paz
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
— Octavio Paz
A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.
— Octavio Paz
The world is born when two people kiss
— Octavio Paz
The woman who died night after nightand her dying was a long goodbye,
a train that never left. — Octavio Paz
To love is to undress our names.
— Octavio Paz
Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.
— Octavio Paz
Light is time thinking about itself.
— Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
— Octavio Paz
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us
— Octavio Paz
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
— Octavio Paz
Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
— Octavio Paz
The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.
— Octavio Paz
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.
— Octavio Paz
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.
— Octavio Paz
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.
— Octavio Paz
To live is also to think, and sometimes to cross that border beyond which feeling and thinking become one: poetry. Meanwhile,
— Octavio Paz
Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.
— Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
— Octavio Paz
Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
— Octavio Paz
Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.
— Octavio Paz
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them.
— Octavio Paz
Perhaps to love is to learnto walk through this world.
To learn to be silent
Like the oak and linden of fable.
To learn to see — Octavio Paz
Every moment is nothing without end.
— Octavio Paz
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
— Octavio Paz
Whatever is not stone is light
— Octavio Paz
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers ... What we call art is a game.
— Octavio Paz
Deserve your dream.
— Octavio Paz
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
— Octavio Paz
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.
— Octavio Paz
Desire turns us into ghosts
— Octavio Paz
To fight evil is to fight ourselves.
— Octavio Paz
