Octavio Paz Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: March 31, 1914 - April 19, 1998
Birthday: March 31
Death: April 19
We pursue modernity in her incessant metamorphoses yet we never manage to trap her. She always escapes: each encounter ends in flight. We embrace her and she disappears immediately: it was just a little air. It is the instant, that bird that is everywhere and nowhere. We want to trap it alive but it flaps its wings and vanishes in the form of a handful of syllables. We are left empty-handed. Then the doors of perception open slightly and the other time appears, the real one we were searching for without knowing it: the present, the presence.
source: Octavio Paz's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1990. 
topic: Real, Air, Doors, Handful, Syllables, Doors Of Perception
