Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange. Octavio Paz More Quotes by Octavio Paz More Quotes From Octavio Paz Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life. Octavio Paz gestures terrible power Loving means getting rid of names. Octavio Paz names mean The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us Octavio Paz progress technique civilization The value of e-commerce is not in the e, but in the commerce. Octavio Paz e-commerce commerce values Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other. Octavio Paz adventure men lying When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings Octavio Paz decay criticism firsts Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others. Octavio Paz hearing quality speak I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts. Octavio Paz memory silence personality time When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant. Octavio Paz hypocrisy character reality thinking One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it. Octavio Paz he mexican horror character In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension. Octavio Paz choose eyes decision work 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 society history reality way An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index. Octavio Paz more censorship worst victim Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations. Octavio Paz value better aesthetic change Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. Octavio Paz going change wisdom two The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern. Octavio Paz accept ethics language games If contemporary artists sincerely seek to be original, unique, and new, they should begin by disregarding the notions of originality, individuality, and innovation: they are the cliches of our time. Octavio Paz new innovation unique time Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts. Octavio Paz alone great man night The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition. Octavio Paz old new tradition criticism No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there. Octavio Paz here alone about change
