Octavio Paz Quotes and its meanings

What does Octavio Paz write about?

Octavio Paz has written on many topics but he is most famous for his work about alone, art, history, love, nature, poetry & wisdom. People always share Alone quotes, Art quotes, history, love, nature, poetry & wisdom from his literary works.

What are the top most famous quotes by Octavio Paz?

Here are the top most famous quotes by Octavio Paz.

• Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
• Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
• 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.
• 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.