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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
Ocean, Eye, Years
Jorge Luis Borges, Anthony Kerrigan (1968). “A Personal Anthology”, p.34, Grove Press
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.