Jorge Luis Borges Quotes About Mythology

• Music, feelings of happiness, mythology, faces worn by time, certain twilights and certain places, want to tell us something, or they told us something that we should not have missed, or they are about to tell us something; this imminence of a revelation that is not produced is, perhaps, the esthetic event.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Twilight, Feelings, Events

  "Otras inquisiciones". Libro de Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

• I suppose every poet has his own private mythology. Maybe he's unaware of it. People tell me that I have evolved a private mythology of tigers, of blades, of labyrinths, and I"m unaware of the fact this is so. My readers are finding it all the time. But I think perhaps that is the duty of poet.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Thinking, People, Labyrinth

  Source: thefloatinglibrary.com

• You don't have to try to be contemporary. You are already contemporary. What one has in mythology is being evolved all the time. Personally, I think I can do with Greek and Old Norse mythology. For example, I don't think I stand in need of planes or of railways or of cars.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Thinking, Car, Greek

  Source: thefloatinglibrary.com

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