Octavio Paz

Spaces

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Space as Generative Void

Paz's poem treats space not as empty absence but as a dynamic, self-generating force. Through sudden, luminous images—whirlpools, suspended clarities, crystalline and smoky gardens—the poem collapses distance and origin, making space both container and event. The final image of a corolla dissolving and a place of "impalpable nuptials" suggests creation as intimate union rather than ordered structure, so that being and non-being interpenetrate within an ambient, formative void.

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Space No center, no above, no below Ceaselessly devouring and engendering itself Whirlpool space And drop into height Spaces Clarities steeply cut Suspended By the night's flank Black gardens of rock crystal Flowering on a rod of smoke White gardens exploding in the air Space One space opening up Corolla And dissolving Space in space All is nowhere Place of impalpable nuptials

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