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Jorge Luis Borges Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you’re writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader’s imagination will reject it Picture Quote #1

I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future... I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world Picture Quote #1

I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets Picture Quote #1

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence Picture Quote #1

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps Picture Quote #1

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Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living Picture Quote #1

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? Picture Quote #1

No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry Picture Quote #1

Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him Picture Quote #1

You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened Picture Quote #1

Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read Picture Quote #1

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It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors Picture Quote #1

God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us Picture Quote #1

Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite Picture Quote #1

He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it Picture Quote #1

Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past Picture Quote #1

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels Picture Quote #1

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I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat Picture Quote #1

I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government Picture Quote #1

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place Picture Quote #1

You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well Picture Quote #1

Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly Picture Quote #1

Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me Picture Quote #1

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Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism Picture Quote #1

In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others Picture Quote #1

There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music Picture Quote #1

Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process Picture Quote #1

What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? Picture Quote #1

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited Picture Quote #1

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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 (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Reality is not always probable, or likely. But if you’re writing a story, you have to make it as plausible as you can, because if not, the reader’s imagination will reject it (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) I thought of a labyrinth of labyrinths, of one sinuous spreading labyrinth that would encompass the past and the future... I felt myself to be, for an unknown period of time, an abstract perceiver of the world (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) I thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose? (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) No one is a poet from eight to twelve and from two to six. Whoever is a poet is one always, and continually assaulted by poetry (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Thus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream, and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die before you have truly awakened (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I’d rather boast about the ones I’ve read (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) God must not engage in theology. The writer must not destroy by human reasonings the faith that art requires of us (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Once I am dead, there will be no lack of pious hands to throw me over the railing; my grave will be the fathomless air; my body will sink endlessly and decay and dissolve in the wind generated by the fall, which is infinite (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) He thought that the rose was to be found in its own eternity and not in his words; and that we may mention or allude to a thing, but not express it (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) I believe that in time we will have reached the point where we will deserve to be free of government (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) You can’t measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Many of the characters are fools and they’re always playing tricks on me and treating me badly (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Then I reflect that all things happen, happen to one, precisely now. Century follows century, and things happen only in the present. There are countless men in the air, on land and at sea, and all that really happens happens to me (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) In all fiction, when a man is faced with alternatives he chooses one at the expense of others (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) Another school declares that all time has already transpired and that our life is only the crepuscular and no doubt falsified and mutilated memory or reflection of an irrecoverable process (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite? (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes) I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited (Jorge Luis Borges Quotes)

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