Octavio Paz

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

“Freedom is not a philosophy, nor is it an idea. It is a movement of consciousness that leads us, at certain moments, to utter one of two monosyllables: Yes or No.”

“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare.”

“A world is born when two people meet.”

“Irony is the wound of consciousness.”

“Every poem is an object made of words.”