Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorNo benefit is ever achieved without harming another.
Michel de Montaigne
View AuthorLaws maintain their credit not because they are just, but because they are laws.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorEroticism and poetry: the first is a metaphor for sexuality, the second an eroticization of language.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorEach poem is unique. In each work, all of poetry beats, to a greater or lesser degree. Each reader seeks something in the poem. And it's not unusual that they find it: It was already inside them.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorArchitecture is the least bribable witness of history.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorA nation without free elections is a nation without voice, without eyes, and without arms.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorThe liberal society will be paralyzed if it stops being self-critical.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorNingún pueblo believes in its government. At most, the people are resigned.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorPoetry must be a little dry to burn well, and thus illuminate and warm us.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorWithout democracy, freedom is a chimera.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorIn every erotic encounter there is an invisible and always active character: the imagination
Octavio Paz
View AuthorThe Mexican's indifference to death is nourished by their indifference to life.