Octavio Paz
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Octavio Paz Biography
Mexican poet, essayist, and political thinker. His works reflect many influences, including Marxism, surrealism, and Aztec mythology. El laberinto de la soledad/The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950), the book which brought him to world attention, explores Mexico's heritage. His long poem Piedra del sol/Sun Stone (1957) uses contrasting images, centring ...
Octavio Paz Poems
Beautiful face
That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun
So do you
Open your face to me as I turn the page.
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Between going and staying
the day wavers,
in love with its own transparency.
The circular afternoon is now a bay
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Listen to me as one listens to the rain,
not attentive, not distracted,
light footsteps, thin drizzle,
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Here is a long and silent street.
I walk in blackness and I stumble and fall
and rise, and I walk blind, my feet
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Between now and now,
between I am and you are,
the word bridge.
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Octavio Paz Quotes
"Art" is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers.... What we call art is a game.
Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.
Octavio Paz Comments
A great poet, and also associated with India, Paz have great influence on contemporary Indian poetry.Poets like K, G.Sankara Pillai have imitated Paz to a great extent.Often misquoted and mis=understood as a marxist poet although a school he do not belongs to, Paz put forward the magical experience of poetry of fine quality and great human values.His poems have a personal touch and a nature to talk to the inner profiles.
A great poet of the world. He is one of my favorite poems since my university life. I did not know then that my lot will lead me to his country. I feel now happy that my beloved Alma Lorena Lopez Velazquez is a nymph of his country.
From world literature scene Octavio Paz is my favorite, I just start to translate Paz's poem. One week ago I already translate these as: Across, As One Listens To The Rain, Axis, Between Going and Coming, Brotherhood, Counterparts, Last Dawn, No More Clichés, Passage, Spaces, The Street, The Bridge etc from poemhunter.com. I think next year I can publish a book on Paz and his Peoms.
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he is great poet, my first favorite modern poet, his works are different and amazing
I love Octavio Paz! I had him for a spanish project and in my opinion he is the best South American poet ever!
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10/23/2021 9:08:47 AM # 1.0.0.738
I do not know too much about this man, but there is a charter school named after him in Chicago and I attended my first year of schooling there, so he must have been a very influential figure through his words.