Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz
Octavio Paz Lozano; March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998) was a Mexican poet and diplomat. He is considered by many as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century and one of the greatest poets of all time...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth31 March 1914
CityMexico City, Mexico
CountryMexico
love might object worship
In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.
love success mutual-help
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
love-is sight firsts
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange.
love-is revelations persons
Love is the revelation of the other person's freedom.
love-is doors space
Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us eternity but life, that second in which the doors of time and space open just a crack: here is there and now is always.
love-is names
To love is to undress our names.
love two doors
To love is to battle, to open doors. The world changes if two can look at each other and see.
flower heart love-is
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.
love-is desire yearning
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.
accomplice aware call creates devours nature neither nor surrounds totality
Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.
cannot man meaning touches
Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.