Quotes by : Octavio Paz

because two bodies, naked and entwined,leap over time, they are invulnerable,nothing can touch them,....

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Poetry is not a genre in harmony with the modern world; its innermost nature is hostile or indifferent....

I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine,....

life is other, always there,further off, beyond you andbeyond me, always on the horizon,life which unlives....

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.....

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming....

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent....

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is....

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone,....