Octavio Paz

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is…

Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What…

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

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

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of…

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who…