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More Quotes by Octavio Paz
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
To love is to undress our names.
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.
Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.
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.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
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.
The universe unfolds in the body, which is its mirror and its creature.
My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
