Octavio Paz
Quotes by Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
— 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
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.
— Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
— Octavio Paz
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.
— Octavio Paz
Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.
— Octavio Paz