Considered to be one of
the best poets of all time, Octavio Paz was a prolific Mexican Poet, diplomat,
writer, 1982 winner of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and 1990
Noble Prize Winner for Literature. According to Wikipedia, Paz was introduced
to literature early in his life through the influence of his grandfather’s
library that was filled with classic Mexican and European literature. A collection of his poems
(written between 1957 and 1987) was published in 1990.
As we observe Cinco de Mayo, we want to share one of Octavio Paz’s most
famous poems:
Between
going and staying the day wavers,
in love
with its own transparency.
The
circular afternoon is now a bay
where the
world in stillness rocks.
All is
visible and all elusive,
all is near
and can't be touched.
Paper,
book, pencil, glass,
rest in the
shade of their names.
Time
throbbing in my temples repeats
the same
unchanging syllable of blood.
The light
turns the indifferent wall
into a
ghostly theater of reflections.
I find
myself in the middle of an eye,
watching
myself in its blank stare.
The moment
scatters. Motionless,
I stay and
go: I am a pause.
Happy CINCO de MAYO!!!
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