Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant. Octavio Paz accomplicealternatelyaware share on social
A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims. Octavio Paz aimattitudedefine Change image and share on social
Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things. Octavio Paz metaphorthingword Change image and share on social
It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life? Octavio Paz attributefeelingguide Change image and share on social
The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented. Octavio Paz americacontinentcreate Change image and share on social
It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain. Octavio Paz constantlycordialityfountain Change image and share on social
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. Octavio Paz attemptlovemutual Change image and share on social
Wit invents; inspiration reveals. The inventions of wit are conceits - metaphors and paradoxes - that discover the secret correspondences that unite beings and things among and with themselves; inspiration is condemned to dissipate its revelations - unless a form can be found to contain them. Octavio Paz beingconceitcondemn share on social
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society. Octavio Paz bourgeoiscontentmanifest Change image and share on social
Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly. Octavio Paz deeplyforeseehistorical Change image and share on social