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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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival Picture Quote #1

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences Picture Quote #1

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Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life Picture Quote #1

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry Picture Quote #1

Poet: gardener of epitaphs Picture Quote #1

Whatever is not stone is light Picture Quote #1

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The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature Picture Quote #1

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift Picture Quote #1

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history Picture Quote #1

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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) 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) Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival (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) 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) Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences (Octavio Paz Quotes) Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life (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) 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) A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry (Octavio Paz Quotes) Poet: gardener of epitaphs (Octavio Paz Quotes) Whatever is not stone is light (Octavio Paz Quotes) The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature (Octavio Paz Quotes) Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift (Octavio Paz Quotes) Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history (Octavio Paz Quotes)

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