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
language mathematics made
The mathematical sciences wield their particular language made of digits and signs, no less subtle than any other.
errors mirrors earth
The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.
canada far-away
Canada is so far away it hardly exists.
dream book hands
I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.
dream writing
All writing is dreaming
aspect subordination universe
A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.
sea idiom decipher
The sea is an idiom I cannot decipher.
superficial-things opinion superficial
When you come right down to it, opinions are the most superficial things about anyone
memories reality past
The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.
yellow world silver
I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.
moon poet duty
I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.
poet inventor
A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor.
mystery sometimes justification
I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.
vanity enemy way
To bless thine enemy is a good way to satisfy thy vanity.