No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry.
JORGE LUIS BORGESA poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses.
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No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
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What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?
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A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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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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It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
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Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.
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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.
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We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !
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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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When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.
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My books standing there on the shelf do not know that I have written them.
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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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Death is just infinity closing in.
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