No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESPoetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
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I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
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Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
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I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist – I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don’t have to solve that problem. It’s up to God, if any.
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When I wake up, I wake to something worse. It’s the astonishment of being myself.
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Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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What I’m really concerned about is reaching one person. And that person may be myself for all I know.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Everything touches everything.
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In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those offences unvisited by any virtues: abuse of confidence and informing.
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The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
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