“Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.”
Source: Selected poems
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Famous Octavio Paz Quotes
“Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.”
Source: Selected poems
“For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.”
“The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.”
“Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.”
Source: Alternating Current
Source: Alternating Current
“Each time we try to express ourselves we have to break with ourselves.”
Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre
“Death is the mother of forms.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: Alternating Current
Source: Alternating Current
Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre
Source: The Labyrinth of Solitude: And the Other Mexico ; Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude ; Mexico and the United States ; The Philanthropic Ogre
Source: Alternating Current
Source: Alternating Current
Source: Alternating Current
Source: Alternating Current