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
poet persons
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.
breathing favors dobermans
Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?
weaving facts possibility
The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.
far-away walks
i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
mother censorship metaphor
Censorship is the mother of metaphor.
men letters too-much
In fact I'm in too much of a mental muddle to know where I am - an idealist or not. I'm a mere man of letters, and I do what I can with those subjects.
ignorant may shameless
We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.
reading thinking should
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.
ignorance imagine not-sure
I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . can you imagine that I don't even know the date of my own death?
suffering documentation language
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.
reading hippie writing
Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
healing weakness left
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
book axes isolated
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
life reality probable-cause
Reality is not always probable, or likely.