Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. – Octavio Paz
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. – Octavio Paz
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers… What we call art is a game. – Octavio Paz
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes to hear it is to see it with our ears. – Octavio Paz
Before I do a play I say that I hope its going to be for as short a time as possible but, once you do it, it is a paradoxical pleasure. One evening out of two there are five minutes of a miracle and for those five minutes you want to do it again and again. Its like a drug. – Isabelle Huppert