Quotes by Octavio Paz

Explore a curated collection of 32 quotes by Octavio Paz. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned wi — Octavio Paz
CodaPerhaps to love is to learnto walk through this world.To learn to be silentlike the oak and the linden of the fable. — Octavio Paz
When we learn to speak, we learn to translate. — Octavio Paz
I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, — Octavio Paz
Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion and attraction. Horror — Octavio Paz
Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because — Octavio Paz
Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal wom — Octavio Paz
I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous. — Octavio Paz
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths but he has not been able to destroy them. — Octavio Paz
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down we don't move today is today always is today. — Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. — Octavio Paz
The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attit — Octavio Paz
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories a — Octavio Paz
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contr — Octavio Paz
The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American essence. If American — Octavio Paz
I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and d — Octavio Paz
Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still — Octavio Paz
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game. — Octavio Paz
Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. O — Octavio Paz
Deserve your dream. — Octavio Paz