In our dreams (writes Coleridge) images represent the sensations we think they cause; we do not feel horror because we are threatened by a sphinx; we dream of a sphinx in order to explain the horror we feel.
Jorge Luis BorgesIt means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.
Jorge Luis BorgesHis life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.
Jorge Luis BorgesI know that when I think of myself as being utterly worn out, when I think that somehow I have nothing more to write, then something is happening within me. And, in due course, it bubbles up; it comes to the surface, and then I do my best to listen. But there's nothing mystical about all this. I suppose all writers do the same.
Jorge Luis Borges