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title: "2 Grove Quotes By Octavio Paz"
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> [listen to me as one listens to the rain, the years go by, the moments return, do you hear the footsteps in the next room? not here, not there: you hear them in another time that is now, listen to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/listen-to-me-as-one-listens-to-the-rain-the-years-go-by-the-moments/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b3/octavio-paz-1790_adrift_listen-to-me-as-one-listens-to-the-rain_1662663.jpg)

> [Enormous and solid but swaying, beaten by the wind but chained, murmur of a million leaves against my window. Riot of trees, surge of dark green sounds. The grove, suddenly still, is a web of fronds and branches.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/enormous-and-solid-but-swaying-beaten-by-the-wind-but-chained-murmur/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98a/octavio-paz-1790_beaten_enormous-and-solid-but-swaying-beaten-by_1937846.jpg)

## Other authors on Grove

## More by Octavio Paz

> [What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/what-sets-worlds-in-motion-is-the-interplay-of-differences-their/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/the-religion-of-art-like-the-religion-of-politics-was-born-from-the/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [I thought that the world was a vast system of signs, a conversation between giant beings. My actions, the cricket's saw, the star's blink,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/i-thought-that-the-world-was-a-vast-system-of-signs-a-conversation/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/changes-are-inseparable-from-democracy-to-defend-democracy-is-to/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/grace-is-gratuitous-it-is-a-gift/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [Death is the mother of forms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/death-is-the-mother-of-forms/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/it-is-not-proper-to-project-our-feelings-onto-things-or-to-attribute/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [Without democracy freedom is a chimera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/without-democracy-freedom-is-a-chimera/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [“I went to the little window and inhaled the country air. One could hear the breathing of the night, feminine, enormous. ("The Blue Bouquet")”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/i-went-to-the-little-window-and-inhaled-the-country-air-one-could/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [A glass pitcher, a wicker basket, a tunic of coarse cloth. Their beauty is inseparable from their function. Handicrafts belong to a world existing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/a-glass-pitcher-a-wicker-basket-a-tunic-of-coarse-cloth-their-beauty/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [“Between going and staying the day wavers, in love with its own transparency. The circular afternoon is now a bay where the world in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/between-going-and-staying-the-day-wavers-in-love-with-its-own/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [“Two bodies face to face Are at times two waves And the night is an ocean. Two bodies face to face Are sometimes two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/two-bodies-face-to-face-are-at-times-two-waves-and-the-night-is-an/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/writers-you-know-are-the-beggars-of-western-society/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/solitude-is-the-profoundest-fact-of-the-human-condition/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

> [“...you are you and your body of steam, you and your face of night, you and your hair, unhurried lightning, you cross the street…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/octavio-paz/you-are-you-and-your-body-of-steam-you-and-your-face-of-night-you-and/)

[Octavio Paz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/octavio-paz/)

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