3 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Experience

Jorge Luis Borges quotes on experience

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.

37. A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

38. Life itself is a quotation.