In 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 BorgesIf I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.
Jorge Luis BorgesTime 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 tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.
Jorge Luis BorgesI suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a private mythology of tigers, of blades, of labyrinths, and I"m unaware of the fact this is so. My readers are finding it all the time. But I think perhaps that is the duty of poet.
Jorge Luis Borges