(March 31, 1914 – April 19, 1998 / Mexico City)

poet Octavio Paz
#91 on top 500 poets

Poems of Octavio Paz

1. Across 4/15/2010
2. As One Listens To The Rain 4/15/2010
3. Axis 4/15/2010
4. Between Going and Coming 4/15/2010
5. Brotherhood 4/15/2010
6. Counterparts 4/15/2010
7. Last Dawn 4/15/2010
8. No More Clichés 4/3/2004
9. Passage 4/15/2010
10. Piedra de Sol 4/15/2010
11. Spaces 4/15/2010
12. Summit And Gravity 4/15/2010
13. The Street 4/15/2010
14. The Bridge 4/15/2010
15. Touch 4/15/2010
16. Where Without Whom 4/15/2010

Across

I turn the page of the day,
writing what I'm told
by the motion of your eyelashes.

I enter you,
the truthfulness of the dark.
I want proofs of darkness, want
to drink the black wine:
take my eyes and crush them.

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