Octavio Paz – 6 Quotes

6 Quotes by Octavio Paz

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

– Octavio Paz

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

– Octavio Paz

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.

– Octavio Paz

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

– Octavio Paz

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears.

– Octavio Paz

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

– Octavio Paz