Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anaya
Rudolfo Anayais an American author. Best known for his 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima, Anaya is considered one of the founders of the canon of contemporary Chicano literature...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 October 1937
CityPastura, NM
CountryUnited States of America
places traveled
I have traveled to many places but have no desire to leave New Mexico.
dust wind sky
The body is not important. It is made of dust; it is made of ashes. It is food for the worms. The winds and the waters dissolve it and scatter it to the four corners of the earth. In the end, what we care most for only lasts a brief lifetime, and then there is eternity. Time forever. Millions of worlds are born, evolve, and pass away into nebulous, unmeasured skies; and there is still eternity. Time always. The body becomes dust and trees and exploding fire, it becomes gaseous and disappears, and still there is eternity. Silent, unopposed, brooding, forever.
forgiving would-be best-god
Perhaps the best god would be like a woman, because only women really knew how to forgive
rivers soul ultima
I had been afraid of the awful presence of the river, which was the soul of the river, but through her [Ultima] I learned that my spirit shared in the spirit of all things.