Quotes by Paz, Octavio

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this >>

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects >>

Today we all speak, if not the same tongue, the same universal languag >>

Quotations about America

America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing. >>

If we Americans are to survive it will have to be because we choose an >>

Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, naïve, o >>

The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of adaptation; certain principles, contained in brief formulas are endlessly repeated by the Press, the radio, the churches, and the schools, and by those kindly, sinister beings, the North American mothers and wives. A person imprisoned by these schemes is like a plant in a flowerpot too small for it: he cannot grow or mature.

Paz, Octavio