The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.
Jorge Luis BorgesThe 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 manโs memory. That is our duty. If we donโt fulfill it, we feel unhappy.
Jorge Luis BorgesI thought that a man can be an enemy of other men, of the moments of other men, but not of a country: not of fireflies, words, gardens, streams of water, sunsets.
Jorge Luis Borges