Jorge Luis Borges Quotes on Poetry
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I saw the delicate bone structure of a hand; I saw the survivors of a battle sending out post cards. . . I saw the oblique shadow of some ferns on the floor of a hot-house; I saw tigers, emboli, bison, ground swells and armies; I saw all the ants in the world.
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Besides, time, which despoils castles, enriches verses . . . Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
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Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
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Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.
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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.
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There are people who barely feel poetry, and they are generally dedicated to teaching it.
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'The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.'