"Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art."
― Jorge Luis Borges
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Poetry
More From Jorge Luis Borges
- "I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
- "Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire."
- "To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god."
More In Poetry
- "The musician – if he be a good one – finds his own perception prompted by the poet’s perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music."― John Drinkwater
- "Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever."― Theodore Sturgeon
- "To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one."― John Ruskin