The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most st…

- Octavio Paz

Technology is not an image of the world but a way of operating on reality. The nihilism of technology lies not only in the fact that it is the most p…

- Octavio Paz

I sat at the foot of a huge tree, a statue of the night, and tried to make an inventory of all I had seen, heard, smelled, and felt: dizziness, horro…

- Octavio Paz

Deserve your dream.

- Octavio Paz

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

- Octavio Paz

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

- Octavio Paz

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

- Octavio Paz

Ruy-Sanchez's works of fiction are always amazing: adventure, poetry and intelligence in a new geometry of words... His writing has nerve and agility…

- Octavio Paz

Poets have the gift to speak for others, Vasko Popa had the very rare quality of hearing the others.

- Octavio Paz