Octavio Paz Quotes

An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

It is still color, it is not yet light.

Shadow owes its birth to light.

To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

The dark is light enough.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

I'm drawn to the dark but not the nihilistic aspects, the relentless parts, of darkness.

Light does not come from light, but from darkness.

I sense Light as the giver of all presences, and material as spent Light. What is made by Light casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light.

Is not light grander than fire?

The darkness declares the glory of light.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

Its when the sun shines the brightest that our shadows appear the biggest

We are the star and the darkness it peirces

Everything that is,casts a shadow

Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light.

Without the existence of the opposite, the concept has no meaning.

You can make it dark, but I can't make it light.

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

Light and lust are deadly enemies.

A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow.

Creation exists only in regard to destruction. Creation is against destruction.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.