Octavio Paz

“Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.”

“To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.”

“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 something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.”

“Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.”