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Quotes About Imagination

Posible, pero no interesante —respondió Lönnrot—. Usted replicará que la realidad no tiene la menor obligación de ser interesante. Yo le replicaré que la realidad puede prescindir de esa obligación, pero no las hipótesis.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Îmi imaginez Paradisul ca pe un fel de bibliotec?.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I dream every night. I dream before I go to sleep, and I dream after waking up.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
como todo escritor, medía las virtudes de los otros por lo ejecutado por ellos y pedía que los otros lo midieran por lo que vislumbraba o planeaba
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Comprendí que el trabajo del poeta no estaba en la poesía; estaba en la invención de razones para que la poesía fuera admirable;
~ Jorge Luís Borges
He dreamt a complete man, a youth, but this youth could not rise nor did he speak nor could he open his eyes. Night after night, the man dreamt him as asleep.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Son el irresponsable juego de un tímido que se animó a escribir cuentos y que se distrajo en falsear y tergiversar (sin justificación estética alguna vez) ajenas historias.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Yo, Quijano, seré paladín. Seré mi sueño. En esa vieja casa hay una adarga antigua y una hoja de Toledo y una lanza y los libros verdaderos que a mi brazo prometen la victoria.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that that patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There is nothing more characteristic of a country than its imaginations. - Prologue to The Tiger Guest, P'u Sung-ling
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Mis sueños son como la vigilia de ustedes
~ Jorge Luís Borges
La segunda, que un famoso poeta es menos inventor que descubridor.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
De El Sur, que es acaso mi mejor cuento, básteme prevenir que es posible leerlo como directa narración de hechos novelescos y también de otro modo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Get hold of a copy of Heine's Buck der Lieder—that should be easily done—get hold of a German-English dictionary, and then begin to read. You may be puzzled at first, but after two or three months you will find yourself reading the finest poetry in the world and perhaps not understanding it but feeling it, which is far better, since poetry is not meant for reason but for the imagination.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Blake wrote that if our senses did not work - if we were blind, deaf, etc. - we would see things as they are; infinite.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
O executor de uma empresa atroz tem de imaginar que já a cumpriu, tem de se impor um futuro que seja irrevogável como o passado.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
O joy of understanding, greater than the joy of imagination, greater than the joy of feeling!
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A realidade não tem a mínima obrigação de ser interessante ... A realidade pode prescindir dessa obrigação, mas não as hipóteses.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Dresser des listes est l'une des plus anciennes activités du poète.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
descree de Dios, pero quiere demostrar al Dios no existente que los hombres mortales son capaces de concebir un mundo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To go on for five hundred pages developing an idea whose perfect oral exposition is possible in a few minutes! A better course of procedure is to pretend that these books already exist, and then to offer a resume, a commentary … More reasonable, more inept, more indolent, I have preferred to write notes upon imaginary books. —Prologue to The Garden of Forking Paths, 10 November 1941
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Buckley did not believe in God, but he wanted to demonstrate to this non-existent God that mortal man was capable of conceiving a world.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
El hecho de que toda filosofía sea de antemano un juego dialéctico, una Philosophie des Als Ob, ha contribuido a multiplicarlas.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Diecinueve años había vivido como quien sueña: miraba sin ver, oía sin oír, se olvidaba de todo, de casi todo.
~ Jorge Luís Borges