Jorge Luis Borges on Reality, Writing, Literature, and More
Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem is the expression of ideas or feelings in a language no one uses, because no one talks in verse.
Fernando Pessoa • The Book of Disquiet (Penguin Modern Classics)
“son entidades con una existencia propia semejante a la vida, con sentimientos que yo no tengo y opiniones que no acepto. Sus escritos son obras ajenas, aunque, por casualidad, sean mías”{11}.
Jorge Wiesse • Los futuros de Fernando Pessoa
‘I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved, all the cities I have visited.’
We Are What We Read
The pleasure is in foreseeing it, not in bringing it to term.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions