A . . . poet is a discoverer rather than an inventor. Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes by Jorge Luis Borges More Quotes From Jorge Luis Borges I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material. Jorge Luis Borges woven dream thinking 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. Jorge Luis Borges writing ideas art All writing is dreaming Jorge Luis Borges dream writing I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose. Jorge Luis Borges differences writing thinking I hardly know what I'm going to write - an article, a story, a poem in free verse - or in some regular form. I only know that when I have the first sentence. And when the first sentence makes a kind of pattern, then I find out the kind of rhythm I'm looking for. Jorge Luis Borges patterns stories writing The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe it is a good thing, this ambition to be a cosmopolitan, this idea to be citizens not of a small parcel of the world that changes according to the currents of politics, according to the wars, to what occurs, but to feel that the whole world is our country. Jorge Luis Borges war believe country The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal. Jorge Luis Borges written certainty Death is just infinity closing in. Jorge Luis Borges closing infinity All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. Jorge Luis Borges no-matter-what what-matters matter I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out. Jorge Luis Borges silver yellow world There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is accumulable. Jorge Luis Borges pain suffering doe We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights. Jorge Luis Borges thieves treasure night I ask of any God, of any gods, that if they give immortality, I hope to be granted oblivion also. Jorge Luis Borges oblivion granted giving 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. Jorge Luis Borges My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. 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. Jorge Luis Borges moment man single life There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite. Jorge Luis Borges others ethics speak evil 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. Jorge Luis Borges create future work past
