Selected Poems Quotes

“            Time
stretched to dry on the rooftops
I am in Mixcoac
                          Letters rot
in the mailboxes
                        The bougainvillea
against the wall’s white lime
                                           flattened by the sun
a stain a purple
                        passionate calligraphy
written by the sun
I am walking back
                            back to what I left
or to what left me
                             Memory
edge of the abyss
                            balcony
over the void
                    I walk and do not move forward

from "Return”
― Octavio Paz, Selected Poems