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
vocabulary rivalry should
In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.
art writing ideas
The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory.
men forget conversation
We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
men ideas should
Every man should be capable of all ideas.
universe
Each thing implies the universe.
book
I have always come to life after coming to books.
inspirational substance made
Time is the substance of which we are made
book ambition exercise
The exercise of letters is sometimes linked to the ambition to contruct an absolute book, a book of books that includes the otherslike a Platonic archetype, an object whose virtues are not diminished by the passage of time.
reading finals literature
In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.
victory defeated knows
That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.
believe writing worship
If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.
errors trying next
In my next life I will try to commit more errors.
art infinite possibility
The possibilities of the art of combination are not infinite, but they tend to be frightful.
numbers infinite gallery
The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.