“ Every text is unique and, at the same time, it is the translation of another text. No text is entirely original because language itself, in its essence, is already a translation: firstly, of the non-v… Octavio Paz
“ Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion and attraction. Horror is a fascination...Horror is immobility, the great yawn of empty space, the wom… 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
“ Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes. Octavio Paz
“ The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate. Octavio Paz
“ Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. Octavio Paz
“ The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention. Octavio Paz
“ Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. Octavio Paz
“ Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books? Octavio Paz
“ Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
“ Technology is neutral and sterile. Now, technology is the nature of modern man; it is our environment and our horizon. Of course, every work of man is a negation of nature, but at the same time, it is… 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.To learn to see.Your glance scattered seeds.It planted a tree. I talkbecause you… Octavio Paz
“ 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… Octavio Paz
