Octavio Paz, ‘Letter of Testimony’, A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)
[Text ID: “ Blood: music in the branches of the veins, touch: light in the night of the bodies.”
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Octavio Paz, ‘Letter of Testimony’, A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)
[Text ID: “ Blood: music in the branches of the veins, touch: light in the night of the bodies.”

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Memory invents another present. As it invents myself. What has been lived blurs with today.
octavio paz
the idolatry of the self and the desecration of the self and the dissipation of the self
Octavio Paz, excerpt from “Proem,” from A Tree Within
With shadows I draw worlds, I scatter worlds with shadows. I hear the light beat on the other side.
Octavio Paz, from “This Side” featured in The Collected Poems (trans. Eliot Weinberger)

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Octavio Paz, ‘The House of Glances’ (selected lines), A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)
Octavio Paz, ‘Coda’, A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)
...certain afternoons in early fall, waterfalls of immaterial gold, the transformation of this world, when everything loses its body, everything is held in suspense...
Octavio Paz, from ‘I Speak of the City’, A Tree Within (trans. Eliot Weinberger)