More Quotes by Octavio Paz
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.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, 'Not Yet,' and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present.
Every view of the world that becomes extinct, every culture that disappears, diminishes a possibility of life
Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.
