Octavio Paz
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born
March 31, 1914
died
April 19, 1998
gender
male
place of birth
Mexico City, D.F., Mexico
influences
Gerardo Diego, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Sor Juana de la Cruz, D.H. Lawrence, Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Butler Yeats, Alfonso Reyes, Antonio Machado, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
about this author
Awarded the 1990 Nobel Prize in Literature "for impassioned writing with wide horizons, characterized by sensuous intelligence and humanistic integrity."
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"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
— Octavio Paz
— Octavio Paz
"Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual."
— Octavio Paz
— Octavio Paz
"Mineral cactai,
quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,
the bird that punctures space,
thirst, tedium, clouds of dust,
impalpable epiphanies of wind.
The pines taught me to talk to myself.
In that garden I learnedto send myself off.
Later there were no gardens. "
— Octavio Paz (A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems)
quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,
the bird that punctures space,
thirst, tedium, clouds of dust,
impalpable epiphanies of wind.
The pines taught me to talk to myself.
In that garden I learnedto send myself off.
Later there were no gardens. "
— Octavio Paz (A Draft of Shadows, and Other Poems)
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