Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.
Jorge Luis BorgesIn the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that every writer creates his own precursors. His work modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future." -- Essay: "Kafka and his Precursors
Jorge Luis BorgesThus my life is a flight and I lose everything and everything belongs to oblivion, or to him.
Jorge Luis BorgesI would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque is the final stage in all art, when art flaunts and squanders its resources.
Jorge Luis Borges