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 BORGESI do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
More Jorge Luis Borges Quotes
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When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone.
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Reality is not always probable, or likely.
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.
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We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Death is just infinity closing in.
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In general, every country has the language it deserves.
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable.
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I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
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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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A poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
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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 earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
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What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
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I am not sure of anything, I know nothing. Can you imagine that I don’t even know the date of my own death?
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