The Collected Poems, 1957-1987 Quotes

“Beyond myself, somewhere,
I wait for my arrival.”
― Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

“Los ojos se cierran,
las palabras se abren.”
― Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

“I am where I was:
I walk behind the murmur,
footsteps within me, heard with my eyes,
the murmur is in the mind, I am my footsteps,
I hear the voices that I think,
the voices that think me as as I think them.
I am the shadow my words cast.


from "Draft of Shadows”
― Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

“Desire turns us into ghosts”
― Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987

“The amphitheater of the genital sun is a dungheap”
― Octavio Paz, The Collected Poems, 1957-1987