Quotes by : Octavio Paz

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

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

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

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?....

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau....

Mineral cactai,quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,the bird that punctures space,thirst, tedium, clouds....

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing.....

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