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
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.
time granted labor
The time for your labor has been granted.
mean writing ease
I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as ‘The Masses’. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.
men heaven action
Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.
art remember pronunciation
Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
procrastination men truth-is
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
men long forever
Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.
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.
book home temptation
Sometimes, looking at the many books I have at home, I feel I shall die before I come to the end of them, yet I cannot resist the temptation of buying new books. Whenever I walk into a bookstore and find a book on one of my hobbies — for example, Old English or Old Norse poetry — I say to myself, “What a pity I can’t buy that book, for I already have a copy at home.
character fool tricks
Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.
happens things-happen
Only in the present do things happen.
reality planes novel
Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.
dark blind poet
Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.
book simple literature
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.