Showing posts with label Octavio Paz. Show all posts
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Saturday, November 29, 2025

Naked and Entwined


"A human being is never what he is but the self he seeks.
...
...because two bodies, naked and entwined,
leap over time, they are invulnerable,
nothing can touch them, they return to the source,
there is no you, no I, no tomorrow,
no yesterday, no names,
the truth of two in a single body,
a single soul, oh total being...
...
Art is the opposite of dissipation,
in the physical and spiritual sense of the word:
it is concentration, desire that seeks incarnation.
...
To love is to undress our names."

- Octavio Paz (1914 - 1998)