“If society abolishes poetry it commits spiritual suicide.” IfsSpiritualSuicideCommitAbolish Author:Octavio Paz
“Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.” IfsLoveSuccessLove IsSucceedSurrenderMutualMutual Help Author:Octavio Paz
“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.” IfsHumansFormUniverseForceRelationshipReturnCoupleExcellenceMetaphorSeedsIntersectionsCouple Things Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.” IfsKnowsMenHumansFactsUsedRealizingConditionsSolitudeLongingNostalgiaHuman ConditionCommunionAnother ManSaying No Author:Octavio Paz
“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.” IfsDifferentTodayLostSpeakLanguageSpaceTomorrowUniversalWestTongueEastYesterdayFormerConfusedHere And NowDifferent TimesCoherenceUniversal LanguageEast And WestYesterday And Tomorrow Book:Alternating Current Source: Alternating Current
“To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.” IfsWorldLoveLooksTwoLove IsDoorsBattle Author:Octavio Paz
“If each of my words were a drop of water, you would see through them and glimpse what I feel: gratitude, acknowledgement.” IfsFeelsWaterGratitudeThank YouGlimpseAcknowledgementDrop Of Water Book:Búsqueda Del Presente Source: Búsqueda Del Presente
