188 Quotes About Mexico

Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.

And it is significant that a country as sorrowful as ours should have so many and such joyous fiestas. Their frequency, their brilliance and excitement, the enthusiasm with which we take part, all suggest that without them we would explode.

México es el origen de todo. El mundo en el que ahora respiramos es China, es la India, pero es también México. Quien no conoce México no puede entender cómo funciona hoy la riqueza en este planeta. Quien ignora a México no entenderá nunca el destino de las democracias transfiguradas por los flujos del narcotráfico.

Mineral cactai,quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls,the bird that punctures space,thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind.The pines taught me to talk to myself.In that garden I learnedto send myself off.Later there were no gardens.

All I want is some man to take delight in me. 5:30? 6:30 A.M. as usual, no cigs. Better a maudlin drunk than a sterile one. My pimples are more like small boils; I have the plague. My lip is split. My tits are swollen and I can't ever sleep. I now breathe with my heart, which skips rope. Back to sex?

Poverty in western Mexico is an Unconditional Sentence.

Summertime is always the best of what might be.

Now the moon of the Aztecs is at the zenith, and all the world lies still. Full and white, the white of bones, the white of a skull; blistering the center of the sky well with its throbbing, not touching it on any side. Now the patio is a piebald place of black and white, burning in the downward-teeming light. Not a leaf moves, not a petal falls, in this fierce amalgam. ("The Moon Of Montezuma")

Rubbing a clit to competin and sawing off someone's foot seemed to use all the same muscles.