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Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Without democracy freedom is a chimera (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Loving means getting rid of names (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Every moment is nothing without end (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Light is time thinking about itself (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion (Octavio Paz Quotes)
The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce (Octavio Paz Quotes)
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate (Octavio Paz Quotes)
A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks (Octavio Paz Quotes)
To love is to undress our names (Octavio Paz Quotes)
The world is born when two people kiss (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Solitude is the profoundest fact (Octavio Paz Quotes)
If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other (Octavio Paz Quotes)
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a quick death (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy (Octavio Paz Quotes)
If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal language. There is no one center, and time has lost its former coherence: East and West, yesterday and tomorrow exist as a confused jumble in each one of us. Different times and different spaces are combined in a here and now that is everywhere at once (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see (Octavio Paz Quotes)
The supreme value is not the future but the present. The future is a deceitful time that always says to us, ‘Not Yet,’ and thus denies us... Whoever builds a house for future happiness builds a prison for the present (Octavio Paz Quotes)
In order for sensation to accede to the objectivity of things, it must itself be changed into a thing. The agent of change is language: the sensations are turned into verbal objects. (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations. (Octavio Paz Quotes)
Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone. (Octavio Paz Quotes)
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. (Octavio Paz Quotes)
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. (Octavio Paz Quotes)
To be a great painter means to be a great poet: someone who transcends the limits of his language (Octavio Paz Quotes)
If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time. (Octavio Paz Quotes)
For the Chinese, the Greeks, the Mayans, or the Egyptians, nature was a living totality, a creative being. For this reason, art, according to Aristotle, is imitation; the poet imitates the creative gesture of nature. (Octavio Paz Quotes)