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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.
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