Octavio Paz Poems Quotes & Sayings

Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies. — Octavio Paz

A wise man governs his eyes, not because it is wrong to delight in beauty, but because otherwise his delight may suffer transmutation into something very different. — J. Budziszewski

If you're not at peace, nothing else matters — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched. — Simon Van Booy

It costs us $1 million for every troop[soldier] in Afghanistan. — Lawrence Korb

So, without being cold, you really have to try to retain the capacity to help people without becoming too emotional or allowing your own emotions to have full rein. — Guy Green

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different. — Octavio Paz

Human nature is universial, and it endures through all cultures and epochs. This is the secret of perenniality of certain poems and books. — Octavio Paz

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern. — Lord Acton

Religious feeling is thus an absolute addition to the subject's range of life. It gives him a new sphere of power. When the outward battle is lost, and the outward world disowns him, it redeems and vivifies an interiour world which otherwise would be an empty waste. — William James