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Octavio Paz Quotes

Octavio Paz quotes

Mexican Poet March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998

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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. Octavio Paz
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
Octavio Paz quote: "To love is to undress our names."
To love is to undress our names. Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz quote: "Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can..."
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz quote: "Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only..."
Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz
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
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude. Octavio Paz
listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to the footsteps of time, inventor of places with no weight, nowhere, listen to the rain running over the terrace, the night is now more night in the grove, lightning has nestled among the leaves, a restless garden adrift-go in, your shadow covers this page. Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz quote: "Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the..."
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. Octavio Paz
... you are you and your body of steam, you and your face of night, you and your hair, unhurried lightning, you cross the street and enter my forehead, footsteps of water across my eyes, listen to me as one listens to the rain Octavio Paz
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. Octavio Paz
... because two bodies, naked and entwined, leap over time, they are invulnerable, nothing can touch them, they return to the source. There is no you, no I, no tomorrow, no yesterday, no names, the truth of twoin a single body, a single soul, oh total being... Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz quote: "Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an..."
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. Octavio Paz
Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied. Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz quote: "a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks."
a human being is never what he is but the self he seeks. Octavio Paz

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