Jorge Luis Borges
Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It is often forgotten that (dictionaries) are artificial repositories, put together well after the languages they define. The roots of language are irrational and of a magical nature.
—Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist, El otro, el mismo, 1969
Posted on February 27, 2004 at 7:14 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It may be that universal history is the history of the different intonations given a handful of metaphors.
—Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian short-story writer, essayist, and poet, The Fearful Sphere of Pascal, 1952
Posted on March 30, 1998 at 9:51 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Emerson said that language is fossil poetry. As confirmation of this dictum, we need only remember that all abstract words are, in effect, metaphors, including the word metaphor, which in Greek means "transfer."
—Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and essayist, Atlas, 1985
Posted on October 21, 2002 at 7:12 AM
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