A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESTruth never penetrates an unwilling mind.
JORGE LUIS BORGESEverything touches everything.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
JORGE LUIS BORGESCensorship is the mother of metaphor.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe 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.
JORGE LUIS BORGESHe was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.
JORGE LUIS BORGESBeyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
JORGE LUIS BORGESWhat you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDeath is just infinity closing in.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA man sets himself the task of portraying the world. Shortly before he dies he discovers that this patient labyrinth of lines is a drawing of his own face.
JORGE LUIS BORGESDictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
JORGE LUIS BORGESI think most people are more important than their opinions.
JORGE LUIS BORGESThe central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESMy books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
JORGE LUIS BORGES