The 30 best phrases of Octavio Paz, the unique Mexican poet
A Mexican who transported us to new worlds. The great Octavio Paz (Mexico City 1914 - 1998) was a remarkable poet , writer and thinker who is recognized as one of the best authors of the twentieth century.
Born in the middle of the Mexican Revolution, he lived in the United States during his childhood, even as a child returning to his native Mexico. He wrote throughout his career, combining works of poetry, prose and translations.
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Quotes and famous quotes of Octavio Paz
Nonconformist and owner of an incomparable style, Octavio Paz influenced a whole generation of artists and thinkers. This led him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in the year 1990.
In today's article we will know the best thoughts, statements and famous phrases of Octavio Paz.
1. The unreality of what is seen gives reality to the gaze.
Everything is based on the point of view, and on knowing how to interpret what we see.
2. Light is the time you think.
Extracted from one of his most beautiful poems.
3. A society possessed by the frenzy of producing more to consume more tends to convert ideas, feelings, art, love, friendship and the people themselves into objects of consumption.
A critique of consumer society and the poverty of art that emanates from it.
4. Loving is getting rid of names.
Goodbye labels, welcome love.
5. Everything is today. Everything is present. Everything is, everything is here. But everything is also in another part and in another time. Out of himself and full of himself ...
The thought of Octavio Paz always forces us to revise our vision of existence.
6. You have to sleep with your eyes open, you have to dream with your hands ... you have to dream aloud, you have to sing until the song takes roots, trunks, branches, branches, birds, stars ...
One of the verses of Octavio Paz most famous and remembered.
7. The protection afforded to marriage could be justified if society really allowed the choice. Since it does not, it must be accepted that marriage is not the highest realization of love, but is a legal, social and economic form that has purposes other than those of love.
Reflecting on the love and culture behind marriage.
8. In sexuality, pleasure serves procreation; in erotic rituals pleasure is an end in itself or has ends other than procreation.
One of the phrases of Octavio Paz in which he inquires about human sexuality.
9. Love is a feeling that can only be born before a free being, that can give us or withdraw its presence.
Certainly, if love is not in full freedom, it can not be love.
10. Poetry makes us touch the impalpable and hear the tide of silence covering a landscape devastated by insomnia.
Another of his literary pearls, in this case with a metaphor worthy of his magnificent pen.
11. Love: make a soul a body, make a body a soul, make a you a presence.
A beautiful phrase about love.
12. To love is to fight, to open doors, to stop being a ghost with a perpetual number condemned by a faceless master.
The transgression linked to love in a society of fools and corrupt.
13. Pride is the vice of the powerful.
How are the proud people? We tell you in this article.
14. We love a mortal being as if he were immortal.
The feelings can lead us to a land of unreason, especially in the field of love.
15. Without freedom, democracy is despotism, without democracy freedom is a chimera.
On the way of governing society.
16. In the feminine relations the pecking, the envies, the gossip, the jealousy and the small perfidies are frequent. All this is due, almost certainly, not to an innate incapacity of the women but to their social situation.
A criticism of women, but not because of their status as women but because they have been victims of oppression for centuries.
17. The revolutions of the twentieth century were and are, precisely, the hotbed of democracies. They have been a cruel response from the history of Marx's predictions: the revolution that would end the State has not only strengthened it but has created a social group that is, at the same time, its creature and its owner.
A personal vision about the historical events of the last century.
18. Once, face to face, I undid my face in front of the mirror: was it my own face, that frozen reflection of nothingness?
Who I am? A question that Octavio Paz has formulated recurrently.
19. Love is an attraction to a unique person: to a body and a soul. Love is choice; eroticism an acceptance.
On eroticism and its conditioning factors.
twenty.For the Mexican, life is a possibility to fuck or to be fucked.
An irreverent phrase to describe class society in Mexico.
21. Man, tree of images, words that are flowers that are fruits that are acts.
Another excerpt from his best poems.
22. Sacrifices and offerings calm or buy gods and patron saints; the gifts and celebrations, to the people.
Panem et circenses, a maxim that Octavio Paz also portrayed.
23. The profound meaning of social protest consists in having opposed the implacable phantom of the future the spontaneous reality of the now.
A revolutionary phrase that confronts desires and realities.
24. Living well demands a good death. We have to learn to face death.
On facing death with determination and humanity.
25. More difficult than to despise money is to resist the temptation to do works or to transform oneself into a work.
Reflections on the chrematistic and on art.
26. None is the absence of our eyes, the pause of our conversation, the reticence of our silence.
The pen of Octavio Paz left us absolutely unforgettable verses.
27. Love is born from a crush; the friendship of frequent and prolonged exchange. Love is instantaneous; Friendship takes time
An excellent reflection on the psychological mechanisms that facilitate the different types of relationships between human beings.
28. Our instruments can measure time but we can no longer think: it has become too big and too small.
A phrase about time and our battered perception about the course of it.
29. In a world made in the image of men, women are only a reflection of the will and want of men.
A phrase about the prevailing machismo in the West.
30. Awakening to history means becoming aware of our uniqueness, a moment of reflective rest before giving ourselves to doing.
The reflection that precedes the action, to understand us towards an uncertain future.
