A civilization that denies death ends by denying life. Octavio Paz
Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them. […]
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don’t move; today is today, […]
The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder. Octavio Paz
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is […]
Deserve your dream. Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who […]
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. […]
The past reappears because it is a hidden present. Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the […]
The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the […]
A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is […]
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking […]