Octavio Pazauthor profile |
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| born | March 31, 1914 |
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| 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 |
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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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books by Octavio Pazcombine editionsavg rating: 4.13 | 1025 ratings | 167 distinct works see all books by Octavio Paz » |
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quotes by Octavio Paz
"No one behind, no one ahead.
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way."
— Octavio Paz
The path the ancients cleared has closed.
And the other path, everyone's path,
easy and wide, goes nowhere.
I am alone and find my way."
— Octavio Paz
"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone."
— 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)