Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges KBE; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986), was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature. His best-known books, Ficcionesand El Aleph, published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion...
NationalityArgentinian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 August 1899
flattery contemporary posterity
The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
fighting men two
The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb.
art individual concrete
Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.
government abuse democracy
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
hero men world
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.
flight life-is oblivion
Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
horse stars men
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.
rose may eternity
He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it.
different may metaphor
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
memories book axes
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.
morning vegetables desire
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part of the authorities to act slowly and impersonally, in the manner of planets or vegetables.
made grammar periods
He constructed a vast labyrinthine of periods, made impassable by the piling-up of clauses upon clauses-clauses in which oversight and bad grammar seemed manifestations of disdain.
time labyrinth invisible
A labyrinth of symbols... An invisible labyrinth of time.
time forks
Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.