Jorge Luis Borges Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Jorge Luis Borges quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased poet born on Aug 24, 1899). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 31 we have for him.
“Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art.”
“My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.”
“Art always opts for the individual, the concrete; art is not Platonic.”
“The central problem of novel-writing is causality.”
“Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.”
“In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.”
“Life and death have been lacking in my life.”
“Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.”
“The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.”
“The fact is that all writers create their precursors. Their work modifies our conception of the past, just as it is bound to modify the future.”
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