Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than that, certain lines. One falls in love with a line, then with a page, then with an author. Well, why not? It is a beautiful process.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Fall In Love Preference
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Translation
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Paradise
I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Detail
I have always come to life after coming to books.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I have always come to life after coming to books.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Metaphor Mom
All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Fortune
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Oral
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.
JORGE LUIS BORGES
What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

JORGE LUIS BORGES

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Form Fragile
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

See
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Anxiety
I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Point
Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

JORGE LUIS BORGES

Time is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
JORGE LUIS BORGES

Consume

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