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Octavio Paz Quotes

Octavio Paz quotes about love

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

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