10 notable quotes by octavio paz
- Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
- Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.
- 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.
- No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone’s path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.
- My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.
- Two bodies face to face Are at times two waves And the night is an ocean. Two bodies face to face Are sometimes two stones And the night a desert.
- Bodies are visible hieroglyphs. Every body is an erotic metaphor, and the meaning of all these metaphors is always the same: death.
- When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
- Life is other, always there, further off, beyond you and beyond me, always on the horizon, life which unlives us and makes us strangers, that invents our face and wears it away.
- There can be no society without poetry, but society can never be realized as poetry, it is never poetic. Sometimes the two terms seek to break apart. They cannot.
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