I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. I like hourgla...
J. L. BORGES Poem LIMITS full TEXT Translated into ENGLISH and original Spanish Text Límites by Jorge Luis Borges : There is a line of Verlaine that … Borges Jorge Luis/J. L. Borges/Prose Jorge Luis BORGES Story THE MIRROR AN THE MASK Full TEXT eng ...
claiming it does “no dishonor to the author.” The poem also appears in both English collections. Borges returned toLunaagain forObra Poética 1923–1966. His final revisions were made in 1969 forObras completas, discarding a few of the more awkward pieces and polishing his “pretentious” styl...
Which of the two is setting down this poem- A single sightless self, a plural I? What can it matter, then, the name that names me, Given our curse is common and the same? Groussae or Borges, now I look upon This dear world losing shape, fading away Into a pale uncertain ashy-gra...
Games with time and infinity Jorge Luis Borges: The Complete Works Preferring the concise arts of essay, poem, and short story, Borges has never written a novel or composed epic verse, and his collected fiction fits comfortably within a single hardcover. But then, so do Shakespeare’s plays...
Poem 诗一首 The useless dawn finds me in a deserted street- corner; I haveoutlived([ˌaʊtˈlɪv] 度过...而健在)the night. Nights are proud waves; darkblue topheavy waves laden with(满载)all thehues(色调,色彩)of deep spoil, laden with things...
“I wroteWhile My Guitar Gently Weepsat my mother’s house in Warrington. I was thinking about the ChineseI Ching, the Book of Changes… The Eastern concept is that whatever happens is all meant to be, and that there’s no such thing as coincidence — every little item that’s going ...
In Spain, Borges fell in with and became a member of the avant-garde, anti-Modernismo Ultraist literary movement, inspired by Guillaume Apollinaire and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, close to the Imagists. His first poem, "Hymn to the Sea," written in the style of Walt Whitman, was published ...
46. “In vain have oceans been squandered on you, in vain the sun, wonderfully seen through Whitman’s eyes. You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.” —Jorge Luis Borges ...
Classic Poetry Series Jorge Luis Borges - poems - Publication Date: 2004 Publisher: PoemHunter.Com - The Worlds Poetry Archive Adam Cast Forth Was there a Garden or was the Garden a dream? Amid the fleeting light, I have slowed myself and queried, Almost for consolation, if the bygone ...