Quotes by : Octavio Paz

This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire....

The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence.....

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

Deserve your dream.

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

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism....

The blue light of the rising moon fell on the rocks and the scant forest of the taiga, revealing each....

To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's....

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

Everything is language.