Octavio Paz Quotes about Desire

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Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

Octavio Paz

Love Is, Desire, Yearning

Octavio Paz (1995). “The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism”, Harcourt

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

Soul, Desire, Noble

Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.

Octavio Paz

Ideas, Erotic, Desire

Octavio Paz (1998). “An Erotic Beyond: Sade”, Harcourt

Octavio Paz Quotes about Desire

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