Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDo you want to see what human eyes have never seen? Look at the moon. Do you want to hear what ears have never heard? Listen to the bird’s cry. Do you want to touch what hands have never touched? Touch the earth. Verily I say that God is about to create the world.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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Man’s memory shapes Its own Eden within.
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The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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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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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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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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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
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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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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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Each thing implies the universe.
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The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.
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To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
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