Octavio Paz Books Quotes

#1. Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

Louie Giglio

#2. I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.

Octavio Paz

#3. I can't see the world as a great hospital with us all nursing and pitying each other.

Elizabeth Harrower

#4. We foolish mortals sometimes live through years not realizing how short life is, and that TODAY is your life.

Edith Schaeffer

#5. While he was in Utah, Obama discussed immigration reform with leaders of the Mormon Church. Obama introduced the first lady. Then the church's president introduced HIS first lady. And his second lady. And his third, fourth, and fifth ladies.

Jimmy Fallon

#6. The general view is that actors start on soaps and then maybe graduate to prime-time television or film; normally you don't see a film actor going to do a soap.

James Franco

#7. The last two times I went to spring training, I had to win a job, and if I didn't get off to a blazing start, I'm on the bench. Now, I've proven myself, so it's not essential that I get off to a real good start.

Eric Davis

#8. Human nature is universial, and it endures through all cultures and epochs. This is the secret of perenniality of certain poems and books.

Octavio Paz

#9. Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Octavio Paz