Quotes from borges jorge luis ii

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

The unicorn, because of its own anomaly, will pass unnoticed. Our eyes see what they are accustomed to seeing.

What one man does is something done, in some measure, by all men.

Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

The impossibility of penetrating the divine pattern of the universe cannot stop us from planning human patterns, even though we are conscious they are not definitive.

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.

Really, nobody knows whether the world is realistic or fantastic, that is to say, whether the world is a natural process or whether it is a kind of dream, a dream that we may or may not share with others.

When I write, I write because a thing has to be done. I don't think a writer should meddle too much with his own work. He should let the work write itself.

Intelligence has little to do with poetry. Poetry springs from something deeper; it's beyond intelligence. It may not even be linked with wisdom. It's a thing of its own; it has a nature of its own. Undefinable.

There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

Myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.