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
reading rereading
Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.
dream writing
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.
should immortal difficult
My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.
writing language hypothesis
The dictionary is based on the hypothesis -- obviously an unproven one -- that languages are made up of equivalent synonyms.
life doe granted
The mightiest love was granted him Love that does not expect to be loved.
happens things-happen
Only in the present do things happen.
writing should-have appreciated
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.
spring book world
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.
afternoon hours verge
There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.
writing want doe
What a writer wants to do is not what he does.
healing weakness left
From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.
space may infinite
If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.
writing simple earth
I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple page, a simple word, on earth -\-\ for all pages, all words, predicate the universe, whose most notorious attribute is its complexity.
inspirational-life single-mom men
Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is." "Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.