Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
JORGE LUIS BORGESIn Spanish it is very difficult to make things flow, because words are over-long. But in English, you have light words.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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I believe books will never disappear. It is impossible for it to happen. Of all man’s diverse tools, undoubtedly the most astounding are his books… If books were to disappear, history would disappear. So would man.
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Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
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I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
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Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
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To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship. In fact, he needs the universe. To be a writer is, in a sense, to be a day-dreamer – to be living a kind of double life.
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Reality favors symmetry.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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