A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one's art. One must accept it.
Jorge Luis BorgesIn vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitmanโs eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
Jorge Luis BorgesWe are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.
Jorge Luis Borges