Octavio Paz

"Deserve your dream."

"Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts."

"No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there."

"Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."

"Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision."

"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears."

"Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus."

"Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society."