An Argentine writer who is considered one of the foremost literary figures of the 20th century.. Argentine short-story writer essayist poet and translator
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The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral , and I prefer the Platonic idea of the Muse to that of Poe, who reasoned, or feigned to reason, that the writing of a poem is an act of the intelligence. It never fails to amaze me that the classics hold a romantic theory of poetry, and a romantic poet a classical theory. Go to Quote / Comment
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Go to Quote / Comment
My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether. Go to Quote / Comment
There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite. Go to Quote / Comment
Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life. Go to Quote / Comment