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 BORGES
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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.
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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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Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
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I think most people are more important than their opinions.
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From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
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The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.
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He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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He 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.
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I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.
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The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
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It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.
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I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also.
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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.
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