More Quotes by Octavio Paz
To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.
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.
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.
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
To love is to undress our names.
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
Light is time thinking about itself.
The American: a titan enamored of progress, a fanatical giant who worships "getting things done" but never asks himself what he is doing nor why he is doing it.
