Octavio Paz said this quote

“ The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate. ”

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Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

~ Octavio Paz

This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.

~ Octavio Paz

Mineral cactai,quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,the bird that punctures space,thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.The pines taught me to talk to myself.In that garden I learnedto send myself off.Later there were no gardens.

~ Octavio Paz

because two bodies, naked and entwined,leap over time, they are invulnerable,nothing can touch them, they return to the source,there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,no yesterday, no names, the truth of twoin a single body, a single soul,oh total being...

~ Octavio Paz