Octavio Paz Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Octavio Paz quotes, Octavio Paz sayings, and Octavio Paz proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz
Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. 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
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. Octavio Paz
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. Octavio Paz
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
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think. Octavio Paz
Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision. Octavio Paz
Surrealism is not a school of poetry but a movement of liberation... A way of rediscovering the language of innocence, a renewal of the primordial pact, poetry is the basic text, the foundation of the human order. Surrealism is revolutionary because it is a return to the beginning of all beginnings. Octavio Paz
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
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz
A garden is not a place: it is a passage, a passion. We don't know where we're going; to pass through is enough; to pass through is to remain. Octavio Paz
Poetry is memory becomes image, and image becomes voice. Octavio Paz
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down. We don't move, today is today, always is today. Octavio Paz
The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words. Octavio Paz