The Fact Is That Poetry Is Not

I Think Of Reading A Book As No Less An Experience Than Travelling Or Falling In Love.

What Will Die With Me The Day I Die? What Pathetic Or Frail Image Will Be Lost To The World? The Voice Of Macedonio Fernandez, The Image Of A Bay Horse In A Vacant Lot On The Corner Of Sarrano And Charcas, A Bar Of Sulfur In The Drawer Of A Mahogany Desk?

When I Write, I Do It Urged By An Intimate Necessity. I Don't Have In Mind An Exclusive Public, Or A Public Of Multitudes, I Don't Think In Either Thing. I Think About Expressing What I Want To Say. I Try To Do It In The Simplest Way Possible.

It May Be That Universal History Is The History Of The Different Intonations Given A Handful Of Metaphors.

To Arrange A Library Is To Practice In A Quiet And Modest Way The Art Of Criticism.