Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

¿Quién soy? Estoy tratando de averiguarlo.

Dios mueve al jugador y éste la pieza. ¿Qué Dios detrás de Dios la trama empieza?

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.

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.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library.

El infierno y el paraíso me parecen desproporcionados. Los actos de los hombres no merecen tanto.

The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.

There is among all your memories one / Which has now been lost beyond recall.

Life itself is a quotation.