Octavio Paz

"The poet's task is to imagine that which does not exist."

"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only partially succeed because we are all prisoners of our own consciousness."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."

"Man is a being who is trying to become."

"Every poem we read is a journey into ourselves."

"The present is the only witness to the past."

"Freedom is not something to be granted, but something to be seized."

"Dialogue is the only path to peace."

"The work of art is born from the union of dream and reason."

"Language is the clothes we wear to conceal or reveal our thoughts."

"To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever seeking a stone to rest on."

"Poetry is the secret history of mankind."

"We are our memories."

"The past is a burden we carry forward."

"Nature does not belong to any one person or nation."

"Art is a reflection of society's soul."

"Knowledge without imagination is a prison."

"Beauty reveals the hidden face of the world."

"Every human being is a universe."

"The future is in our hands, not in fate."

"Education is the path to liberation."

"Hope is a discipline we must practice."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it."

"Music speaks where words fail."

"The search for meaning is the search for ourselves."

"Friendship is a sanctuary in a hostile world."

"Every moment contains eternity."

"Truth requires the courage to face ourselves."

"Work without passion is slavery."

"Dreams are the only reality that matters."