292 Quotes by Octavio Paz

Whatever is not stone is light.

The world is born when two people kiss.

Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don’t move; today is today, always is today.

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see.

What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions; life is plurality, death is uniformity.

Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.

No one behind, no one ahead. The path the ancients cleared has closed. And the other path, everyone’s path, easy and wide, goes nowhere. I am alone and find my way.

El mexicano puede doblarse, humillarse, “agacharse”, pero no “rajarse.

Reversibility: seeing through opaqueness, not-seeing through transparency. The wooden door and the glass door: two opposite facets of the same idea. This opposition is resolved in an identity: in both cases we look at ourselves looking. Hinge procedure. The question “What do we see?” confronts us with ourselves.