Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

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• Octavio Paz:

  Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they repro

• Octavio Paz:

  Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says

• Octavio Paz:

  All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each pa

• Octavio Paz:

  The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

• Octavio Paz:

  In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on

• Octavio Paz:

  Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with eac

• Octavio Paz:

  Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces hi

• Octavio Paz:

  The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land whi

• Octavio Paz:

  The American War of Independence is the expulsion of the intrusive elements, alien to the American

• Octavio Paz:

  Sensation is amphibious: at the same time it joins us to and divides us from things. It is the door