“ There are few poets today who can equal, in their esthetic exploitation of language, in their depth of commitment to their medium, in their range of conceptual understanding, in the purity of their cl… William H. Gass
“ I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood. Jorge Luis Borges
“ I never reread what I've written. I'm far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I've done. Jorge Luis Borges
“ The story of two dreams is a coincidence, a line drawn by chance, like the shapes of lions or horses that are sometimes formed by clouds. Jorge Luis Borges
“ Borges is particularly stimulating to a man who works in the cinema, because the unusual thing about his writing is that it is like a dream, extraordinarily farsighted in calling up from the unconscio… Federico Fellini
“ It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows h… Jorge Luis Borges
“ Borges's extreme architecture attempts to visualize the universe by assigning to every object real and unreal, now and yet to come, a code or sign, a corresponding figure within the Library. It seeks… Akira Mizuta Lippit
“ Things, events, that occupy space yet come to an end when someone dies make us stop in wonder - and yet one thing, or an infinite number of things, dies with every man's or woman's death, unless the u… Jorge Luis Borges
“ As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store. William H. Gass
“ The three of them knew it. She was Kafka’s mistress. Kafka had dreamt her. The three of them knew it. He was Kafka’s friend. Kafka had dreamt him. The three of them knew it. The woman said to the frie… Jorge Luis Borges
“ This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought—our thought that bears the stamp of our age and ou… Michel Foucault
“ I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is… Jorge Luis Borges
“ The metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of amazement. Jorge Luis Borges
“ As Borges himself showed us in so many stories — "The Aleph", "The Garden of Forking Paths", "The Gift", "Blue Tigers", "Shakespeare's Memory" — a blessing is always a mixed blessing.As Borges noted s… Andrew Hurley
“ The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.” Mallarmé repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said; “tout aboutit en un livre,” everything ends… Jorge Luis Borges
“ A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once. Jorge Luis Borges
