Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Water

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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

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?

Jorge Luis Borges

Water, Feelings, Doubt

"Siete noches/Seven Nights". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1980.

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

Jorge Luis Borges

Men, Years, Water

Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.21, Grove Press

Jorge Luis Borges Quotes about Water

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