Octavio Paz Quote

The most dangerous human masses are those in whose veins the poison of fear has been injected... the fear of change.

A world is born when two kiss.

Love is born of a sudden passion; friendship from frequent and prolonged interaction.

Each 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.

Architecture is the least bribable witness of history.

A nation without free elections is a nation without voice, without eyes, and without arms.

The liberal society will be paralyzed if it stops being self-critical.

Ningún pueblo believes in its government. At most, the people are resigned.

Poetry must be a little dry to burn well, and thus illuminate and warm us.

Without democracy, freedom is a chimera.

In every erotic encounter there is an invisible and always active character: the imagination