The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThere is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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When I feel I’m going to write something, then I just am quiet and I try to listen. Then something comes through. And I do what I can in order not to tamper with it.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
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Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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I would rather like to think of God as being a kind of adventurer – even as Wells thought about him – or perhaps as something within us making for some unknown purpose.
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Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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