Octavio Paz

"We are born alone and we die alone, yet we spend our lives trying to connect."

"The past is a phantom that haunts the present."

"Poetry is the restoration of meaning to words."

"Knowledge without wisdom is merely information."

"The present moment contains all moments."

"Language creates reality as much as it describes it."

"A man without memory is a man without history."

"The revolution begins within the self."

"Beauty is the visible mystery of existence."

"We must learn to see with the eyes of the heart."

"Desire is the engine of civilization and destruction."

"The sacred dwells in the ordinary."

"Words are bridges between souls."

"Every act of creation is an act of rebellion."

"The future is not what happens, but what we make happen."

"Identity is a conversation between the self and society."

"Art is the answer to the question that cannot be asked."

"In silence, we hear the voice of truth."

"The most radical act is presence."

"We inherit the past; we create the future; we live in the present."

"Poetry teaches us that the invisible is more real than the visible."

"Power without love is tyranny; love without power is sentimentality."

"The human condition is a constant negotiation between desire and reality."

"To understand another culture is to expand one's own being."

"Language is the only paradise we have lost and keep losing."

"The moment defines us more than the choice."

"Creativity is the capacity to make connections between disparate things."

"Truth is not what is said, but what remains unsaid."

"Every human being is a story waiting to be told."

"The self is a plurality, not a unity."