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Octavio Paz Quotes
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Light is time thinking about itself (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Every moment is nothing without end (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Loving means getting rid of names (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Without democracy freedom is a chimera (Octavio Paz Quotes)
To love is to undress our names (Octavio Paz Quotes)
The world is born when two people kiss (Octavio Paz Quotes)
A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks (Octavio Paz Quotes)
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Solitude is the profoundest fact (Octavio Paz Quotes)
If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Poet: gardener of epitaphs (Octavio Paz Quotes)
What characterizes a poem is its necessary dependence on words as much as its struggle to transcend them (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings (Octavio Paz Quotes)
What is art? A violet. Is that all? An artistic style is a living entity, a continuous process of invention. It can never be imposed from without; born of the profoundest tendencies within a society, its direction is to a certain extent unpredictable, in much the same way as the eventual configuration of a tree’s branches (Octavio Paz Quotes)
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science, without criticism there is no art or literature. I would also say that without criticism there is no healthy society (Octavio Paz Quotes)
With great difficulty advancing by millimeters each year, I carve a road out of the rock. For millenniums my teeth have wasted and my nails broken to get there, to the other side, to the light and the open air. And now that my hands bleed and my teeth tremble, unsure in a cavity cracked by thirst and dust, I pause and contemplate my work. I have spent the second part of my life breaking the stones, drilling the walls, smashing the doors, removing the obstacles I placed between the light and myself in the first part of my life (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don’t move; today is today, always is today (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Whatever is not stone is light (Octavio Paz Quotes)
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry (Octavio Paz Quotes)
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 (Octavio Paz Quotes)
The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life (Octavio Paz Quotes)
By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches (Octavio Paz Quotes)
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival (Octavio Paz Quotes)
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket’s saw, the star’s blink, were nothing but pauses and syllables, scattered phrases from that dialogue. What word could it be, of which I was only a syllable? Who speaks the word? To whom is it spoken? (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul (Octavio Paz Quotes)
To fight evil is to fight ourselves (Octavio Paz Quotes)
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