Octavio Paz Quotes

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Deserve your dream.
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.
What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.
A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.
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.
All of us, at some moment, have had a vision of our existence as something unique, untransferable and very precious. This revelation almost always takes place during adolescence.
All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
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Octavio Paz
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BirthDate
31 March, 1914
DeathDate
19 April, 1998
Country
Mexico
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