I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

Time can't be measured in days the way money is measured in pesos and centavos, because all pesos are equal, while every day, perhaps every hour, is different.

The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all of these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.

What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?