We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.

The people of Tlön are taught that the act of counting modifies the amount counted, turning indefinites into definites. The fact that several persons counting the same quantity come to the same result is for the psychologists of Tlön an example of the association of ideas or of memorization.

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

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia.

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