4 Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Feeling

Jorge Luis Borges quotes on feeling

4. That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

33. The aesthetic event is something as evident, as immediate, as indefinable as love, the taste of fruit, of water. We feel poetry as we feel the closeness of a woman, or as we feel a mountain or a bay. If we feel it immediately, why dilute it with other words, which no doubt will be weaker than our feelings?

34. There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.

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54. In life, he suffered from a sense of unreality, as do many Englishmen.