Mexican writer, poet an diplomat (1914–1998)
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He mapped the labyrinth where solitude and identity meet — the Mexican poet who turned loneliness into a philosophy and won the Nobel for it.
Octavio Paz Lozano was born March 31, 1914, and spent a life moving between words and nations as both poet and diplomat. His writing threaded philosophy through verse, pulling at the knot of what it means to be alone and Mexican and human all at once. The honors came in waves: the Jerusalem Prize in 1977, the Miguel de Cervantes in 1981, the Neustadt in 1982, then the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1990. He died April 19, 1998, having turned the interior life into a map others could read.
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The Hindu genius is a love for abstraction and, at the same time, a passion for the concrete image. At times It is rich, at others prolix.
To fight evil is to fight ourselves.
Only now have I understood that there was a secret relationship between what I have called my expulsion from the present and the writing of poetry.
And to fill all these white pages that are left for me with the same monotonous question: at what hour do the hours end?
I too await the coming of my hour, I too exist. No. I quit. Yes, I know, I could settle down in an idea, in a custom, in an obsession.
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