3 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Discovery

Jorge Luis Borges quotes on discovery

32. The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

51. I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

143. Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face.