{"author":"Octavio Paz","author_id":"Octavio+Paz","total_quotes":48,"quotes":[{"text":"Better the crime,the suicides of lovers, the incest committedby brother and sister like two mirrorsin love with their likeness, better to eatthe poisoned bread, adultery on a bedof ashes, ferocious love, the poisonousvines of delirium, the sodomite who wearsa gob of spit for a rose in his lapel,better to be stoned in the plaza than to turnthe mill that squeezes out the juice of life,that turns eternity into empty hours,minutes into prisons, and time intocopper coins and abstract shit.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["life","living","poetry"],"id":2543,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"Everything is language.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["language","philosophy","things"],"id":3098,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"Deserve your dream.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["dream","deserve","your dream "],"id":8595,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"Horror immobolizes us because it is made of contradictory feelings: fear and seduction, repulsion and attraction. Horror is a fascination...Horror is immobility, the great yawn of empty space, the womb and the hole in the earth, the universal Mother and the great garbage heap...With horror we cannot have recourse to flight or combat, there remains only Adoration or Exorcism.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["adoration","earth","exorcism","fear","horror","mother","seduction"],"id":15357,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears. ","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["eyes","hear","see "],"id":47049,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"A society is defined as much by how it comes to terms with its past as by its attitude toward the future: its memories are no less revealing than its aims.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["future","memories","past "],"id":57713,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature - if that word can be used in reference to man, who has ‘invented’ himself by saying ‘no’ to nature - consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["longing","nature","solitude","soul"],"id":75748,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"After chopping off all the arms that reached out to me; after boarding up all the windows and doors; after filling all the pits with poisoned water; after building my house on the rock of a No inaccessible to flattery and fear; after cutting out my tongue and eating it; after hurling handfuls of silence and monosyllables of scorn at my loves; after forgetting my name and the name of my birthplace and the name of my race; after judging and sentencing myself to perpetual waiting and perpetual loneliness, I heard against the stones of my dungeon of syllogisms the humid, tender, insistent onset of spring.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["solitude"],"id":81452,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["game","turn","invention "],"id":108341,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"},{"text":"Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down  we don't move  today is today  always is today.","author":"Octavio Paz","tags":["one","day"],"id":111514,"author_id":"Octavio+Paz"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":48,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}