Octavio Paz Quotes

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Curious about how a Nobel‑winning poet makes history a mirror? These few Paz lines give a sharp taste: a lament on imperialism’s grip, a sly jab at literary labels, and the echo of political pulse. If you like this, Mexican literature and 20th‑century poetry pages offer richer collections.

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We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit. - Octavio Paz The time you enjoy wasting is not…

Bertrand Russell

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“Someday Neruda and Octavio Paz will shake hands. Sooner or later Paz will make room on Olympus for Neruda. But we will…

Roberto Bolaño

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“Imperialism has not allowed us to achieve historical normality,’ Octavio Paz lamented in The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950). Paz was surveying the…

Pankaj Mishra

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“According to Padilla, remembered Amalfitano, all literature could be classified as heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual. Novels, in general, were heterosexual. Poetry, on…

Roberto Bolaño

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If you look at the recent Nobel Prize winners, one couldn't say that the work didn't matter and the political commitment did.…

Nadine Gordimer

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