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“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”

Jorge Luis Borges · Poetry

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Jorge Luis Borges

The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.

Future

Jorge Luis Borges

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

Life

Jorge Luis Borges

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.

Time

Jorge Luis Borges

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

Imagination