Octavio Paz Quotes: 9

• The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.

• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.

• Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

  The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

• because two bodies, naked and entwined,leap over time, they are invulnerable,nothing can touch them, they return to the source,there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,no yesterday, no names, the truth of twoin a single body, a single soul,oh total being...

  Sunstone/Piedra De Sol

• This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

  The Other Voice: Essays on Modern Poetry

• Mineral cactai,quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,the bird that punctures space,thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.The pines taught me to talk to myself.In that garden I learnedto send myself off.Later there were no gardens.

  A Draft of Shadows and Other Poems

• Каждый читатель - тот же поэт, каждое стихотворение - любое другое. Ни минуты не стоя на месте, поэзия никуда не спешит. В разговоре каждая фраза предвосхищает следующую: у этой цепи есть начало и конец. В стихах первая фраза содержит последнюю, как последняя - первую. Поэзия - единственный способ противостоять линейному времени, так называемому прогрессу.

  Освящение мига

• Стихи нельзя объяснить - только понять.

  Освящение мига

• У влюбленного в безмолвие поэта есть одно спасение - речь.

  Освящение мига