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Argentinian Writer Jorge Luis Borges

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  • Yes dear Jessica… there is no time like the present… Love, Paul

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  • Beautiful poem Catherine, thank you :-)

    Love Jessica

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  • Thank you Paulo to make me discover that argentinian artist and great man. He looks impressive, and in the same time, not at all. Maybe we are disturbing by the words written rather than the persons for themselves, moreover when we never met them. Or by all the things they permit to illuminate in ourselves.

    I never read him before, or maybe some poems in school, but I can’t remember about. Now I glanced through some of his poems, I can feel a warm feeling from him. The way he put his hand on his walking stick impresses a pledge of wisdom. The walking stick is a wise object for me in this case, but not always indeed.
    I’m smiling because he also makes me think about the actor playing Bela Lugosi in a Tim Burton’s movie. Though they cetainly did not improve the same emotions in their life…
    And as K.Gibran, his eyes are looking in two directions. :)
    It is quite astonishing the way a photography could give us under the impression people are still alive, while they left us.

    I noted this just poem I’d like to share with you all. It is called: The Just

    A man who, as Voltaire wished, cultivates his garden.

    He who is grateful that music exists on earth.

    He who discovers an etymology with pleasure.

    A pair in a Southern café, enjoying a silent game of chess.

    The potter meditating on colour and form.

    The typographer who set this, though perhaps not pleased.

    A man and a woman reading the last triplets of a certain canto.

    He who is stroking a sleeping creature.

    He who justifies, or seeks to, a wrong done him.

    He who is grateful for Stevenson’s existence.

    He who prefers the others to be right.

    These people, without knowing, are saving the world.

    Jorge Luis Borges

    Peace to his soul.

    Catherine.

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  • ‘I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors . . . Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote and had the decency of not publishing. Nothing, nothing, my friend; what I have told you: I am not sure of anything, I know nothing . . . Can you imagine that I not even know the date of my death?’

    I found this quote on one of the websites about Mr Borges and wanted to share it with you…

    Kate Eva F

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  • Was it Borges that you said that you had travelled to see when you were a young man?

    I haven’t had the opportunity to read Borges extensively, but I have read some of his short stories. The ones that have stayed with me are “El sur,” “Funes, el memorioso,” and “El etnografo”. (I hope my Spanish is correct here!!) I don’t remember having read any of his poetry.

    What an awesome mind, intelligence and imagination this man had. From what I’ve read by him and from what others have said and written about him, I would say that he was a genius.

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  • Si vous aimez la poesie, regardez ce site SVP https://www.finepoets.com
    Beau poeme de Jorge Jessica, merci.

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  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZIKmKhyYO4
    An interesting video. Although I do not understand a .. word, I loved watching it… and Argentinian music too.
    A beatiful poem, my dear Jessica. Thank you for ‘exhibiting’ it for us.
    A have read his biography and now I .. want to read all his writings.
    Love,
    Thelma

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  • ahy!! que barbarooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!! si! jessica! ese poema es hermoso…hay un gran aprendisaje en el, quizas mi gran querido idolo se fue sin saber que dejo un gran mensaje!!o no! mejor a un! con ese mensaje se planto en este mundo y jamas se ira!!

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  • What a great poet , another chance to relish beautiful imagery and words.Thank you.

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  • Thank you Annie :-)

    And I thank mr Borges for writing it ;-)
    I wish I could write poems like that.
    I agree with you Annie, next canidate would be you Paulo :-)

    Love Jessica

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  • Thank you dear Jessica…Magnificent poem… thank you for sharing..there lies the whole truth…Live to the fullest every single moment in our life.. so we dont say we didnt live when we die..
    thank you Mr Borges..

    i believe the next candidate for writers and poets, would be maybe you…dear Paulo Coelho??

    :)
    Love and Graditude
    Annie
    Love and Graditude
    Annie

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  • I found this beautiful poem by Jorge,
    and it talks to my heart (se below).

    I hope I learn this now at age 35, so I don´t have to look back at 85 and have any regrets about what I didn´t do.

    Because if we do mistakes we can learn from them and grow.
    But if we don´t do any mistakes how can we learn ?

    Instants

    If I could live again my life,
    In the next - I’ll try,
    - to make more mistakes,
    I won’t try to be so perfect,
    I’ll be more relaxed,
    I’ll be more full - than I am now,
    In fact, I’ll take fewer things seriously,
    I’ll be less hygenic,
    I’ll take more risks,
    I’ll take more trips,
    I’ll watch more sunsets,
    I’ll climb more mountains,
    I’ll swim more rivers,
    I’ll go to more places - I’ve never been,
    I’ll eat more ice creams and less (lime) beans,
    I’ll have more real problems - and less imaginary
    ones,
    I was one of those people who live
    prudent and prolific lives -
    each minute of his life,
    Offcourse that I had moments of joy - but,
    if I could go back I’ll try to have only good moments,

    If you don’t know - thats what life is made of,
    Don’t lose the now!

    I was one of those who never goes anywhere
    without a thermometer,
    without a hot-water bottle,
    and without an umberella and without a parachute,

    If I could live again - I will travel light,
    If I could live again - I’ll try to work bare feet
    at the beginning of spring till
    the end of autumn,
    I’ll ride more carts,
    I’ll watch more sunrises and play with more children,
    If I have the life to live - but now I am 85,
    - and I know that I am dying …

    Love Jessica

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  • “He cometido el peor de los pecados
    que un hombre puede cometer. No he sido
    feliz. Que los glaciares del olvido
    me arrastren y me pierdan, despiadados.
    Mis padres me engendraron para el juego
    arriesgado y hermoso de la vida,
    para la tierra, el agua, el aire, el fuego.
    Los defraudé. No fui feliz. Cumplida
    no fue su joven voluntad. Mi mente
    se aplicó a las simétricas porfías
    del arte, que entreteje naderías.
    Me legaron valor. No fui valiente.
    No me abandona. Siempre está a mi lado
    La sombra de haber sido un desdichado.”

    …a mi entender lejos pero muy lejos uno de los mejores escritores que nos regalo este mundo…

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  • Well,what an extraordinary great surprise.Finally,you come with that topic.I have such a great admiration for that writer,I was almost shock when I see you put his name on the page.I can tell is one of my very favourites,impossible to compare to someone else,so originall in his writings.I was amazed when I first read his short story”The Rose of Paracellsus”,sory if the title is not exact,I translated it.Than I read more and more about him,even some discourses in confferences,in a book “The beauty as a physical sensation”,again tittle might be not exact,was in romanian language.I loved “The Book of Sand”,quite incredible.I am so glad I read some of his works,because it would be a big lost not to do that.I loved the kind of fantastic he used,the symbols,that I am already too fond of,the tension and the surprise that kept awake the interest all till the end.Why not, amazing labyrinticall constructions,lovely,that make us not to be sure of anything,to think,to be part of the story.I am only sorry he was not rewarded the Nobel prize,I thought he definitely deserved it.The library as a labirynt,he himself as a character,in some writings,so interesting approach.I am so sorry I am not able to write very well in English ,because now I feel I lack words for describing what I feel when I hear that name,of that very important great writer.I must repeat is my very favourite,is something appart,above normality,he is kind of genius.Love you Paulo,for I know you like J.L.Borges ,bye

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