Octavio Paz Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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

• 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

• The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange
  voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body,
  another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches,
  sings the unknown. It calls to me.

  Octavio Paz

  Inspiration, Men, Voice

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