"The aesthetic event is something as evident, as……" — Jorge Luis Borges

"The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, as water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it further with words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?"

Jorge Luis Borges

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