This chapter examines the transformation of furor poeticus in Jacinto de Evia’s Celio’s Dream (El sueño de Celio), a pivotal work of seventeenth-century colonial Ecuadorian literature. Divided into three parts, the study first explores Evia’s shift from divine to erotic inspiration, arguing that his reinterpretation of Neoplatonic ideals establishes human passion as the central source of creativity. In doing so, it anticipates Romantic and modern understandings of literary inspiration. The second part offers a comparative analysis of Celio’s Dream with Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso and Vida’s Christiad. This comparison reveals Evia’s remarkable contribution to the poetic tradition, specifically his anchoring of poetic brilliance in lived experience and emotional depth. The final section employs feminist theoretical frameworks to examine the silences surrounding female figures such as Lisandra, the Rose, and Anfrisa. Their apparent passivity is reinterpreted as a sophisticated expression of agency and resistance. Anfrisa’s productive absence disrupts traditional portrayals of the muse, proposing instead a dialogic model of artistic creation where silence becomes a powerful force. The chapter concludes that Celio’s Dream locates its aesthetic project firmly within a Latin American framework and, in doing so, offers a distinct treatment of love, power, and silence that departs in important respects from earlier European models.