He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Best thing to happen for a poet. A fine death, no? An impressive death. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Poetry is not the books in the library. Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I speak in a poem of the ancient food of heroes: humiliation, unhappiness, discord. Those things are given to us to transform,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The two important facts I should say, are emotion, and then words arising from emotion. I don't think you can write in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The taste of the apple ... lies in the contact of the fruit with the palate, not in the fruit itself; in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I think of myself primarily as a reader, then also a writer, but that's more or less irrelevant. I think I'm a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Distance and antiquity (the emphases of space and time) pull on our hearts. If we are already sobered by the thought that… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“In an isolated region from Iran there is this wall tower, windowless, doorless, not very tall. In its only room with arched… — jorge luis borges Copy Share Image
“Ars Poetica To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There are objects made up of two sense elements, one visual, the other auditory—the colour of a sunrise and the distant call… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“ Boast of Quietness Writings of light assault the darkness, more prodigious than meteors. The tall unknowable city takes over the countryside.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Let no one reduce to tears or reproach This statement of the mastery of God, Who, with magnificent irony, gave Me at… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end.… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't think we're capable of knowledge, but I like to keep an open mind. So if you ask me whether I believe in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The web of time - the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect, or ignore each other through the centuries - embraces "every"… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When I write, I do it urged by an intimate necessity. I don't have in mind an exclusive public, or a public of multitudes,… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left. — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
