Scholars have often highlighted the inscrutability and self-referentiality of Trilce’s most inaccessible lines. Making use of recent reviews on the Theory of Affects, I will nonetheless try to prove that the trilcean Vallejo apprehends his immediate environment in a way that prioritizes the sensory and the affective experience over the intellectual; a hypothesis that would restore a key role in the book for the often underestimated physical dimension of experience.