Octavio Paz Quotes

Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. 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

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• My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Own
  • Reach
  • My Own

• Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Grandmother

• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Good
  • Beauty
  • Grace

• In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Work
  • Me
  • Superstar

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• You don't have to feel confident to act confident. In fact, it's the most important acting job you can learn.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Important
  • Job
  • Learn

• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

  Patrick Wang
  • Time
  • Find
  • Strange

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Work
  • Positive
  • Negativity

• Stories are the common ground that allow people to connect, despite all our defences and all our differences.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • People
  • Differences
  • Common

• I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Me
  • Conscious

• Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • World
  • Man
  • Fall

• I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Work
  • Intelligent

• I don't read much when I'm working. When I'm finished work, I don't want a thing to do with words.

  

  Pauline Gedge
  • Work
  • Words

• I ain't drop an album since I was 25. I rap way better. I've experienced way more.

  

  Meek Mill
  • Rap

• The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Wise
  • Contradict

• Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

  

  Colin Angle
  • People

• I thought, transgender people are much worse off than I am. That's why they're willing to risk everything to be who they are. But the older I got, the harder it got to stay in my body.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • People
  • Why
  • Risk

• Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. 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
  • World
  • Soul
  • Desire