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There 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.

Jorge Luis Borges

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.
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Book Discover Fact Library Poetry
The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.
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Expression Important Literature
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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Feeling Listening Myself Order Writing
I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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Important Opinion People Thinking
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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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
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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Art Happiness Man Memories Music Transformation
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
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Allow Forgiveness Myself See Sin
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
The future is as irrevocable as an inflexible yesterday.
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Future Past
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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Date Death Imagination Known Yourself
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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Discover Invention Poet
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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God Kind Myself Purpose Thinking Unknown
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
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Dreams Guide Writing
May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell.
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Existence Heaven Hell Place

There 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.

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