"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 ti...

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Art is fire plus algebra.
More Jorge Luis Borges quotes
"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.
"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.
"... in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions.
"I reread these negative remarks and realize that I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an...
"A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for ...