Inventory Quotes 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…

— 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…

— 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,…

— Octavio Paz

Changes are inseparable from democracy. To defend democracy is to defend the possibility of change; in turn, changes alone can strengthen democracy.

— Octavio Paz

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

— Octavio Paz

Death is the mother of forms.

— 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…

— Octavio Paz

Without democracy freedom is a chimera

— 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")”

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Octavio Paz