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
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.
far-away walks
i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive
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.
poet persons
He consorted with prostitutes and poets...and with persons even worse.
fighting expression may
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
sunset rose saws
I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the colour of a rose in Bengal.
confused orthodoxy should
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
dream writing
Writing is only a guided dream.
falling-in-love reading book
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
friendship father speech
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begins by avoiding the intimacies and eventually eliminates speech altogether.
writing waiting anxiety
Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.
order literature causes
In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
unforgivable-sin splendor sin
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor