Borges on Writing Quotes

“How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Borges on Writing

“I know very little of my own work by heart, because I don’t like what I write. In fact, I find myself personally expressed far better in the writings of other poets than in my own, because I know all my mistakes—I know all the chinks and all the padding, I know that a particular line is weak, and so on. I read other poets in a different way; I don’t look too closely at them.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Borges on Writing

“Poetry is given to the poet. I don’t think a poet can sit down at will and write. If he does, nothing worthwhile can come of it.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Borges on Writing