QUOTE OF THE DAY: APRIL 27, 2016

The highly erudite "Other
Inquisitions 1937-1952"

Today's very apt Quote of the Day comes to us from one of my all-time favorite writers, the Argentine poet, short-story writer and essayist Jorge Luis Borges, from his essay The Wall and the Books, published in the excellent compilation Other Inquistions 1937-1952:

"Music, states of happiness, mythology, faces belabored by time, certain twilights and certain places try to tell us something, or have said something we should not have missed, or are about to say something; this imminence of a revelation which does not occur is, perhaps, the aesthetic phenomenon."

-Jorge Luis Borges, The Wall and Books, 1950; Otras Inquisiciones, 1937-1952

 
Suggested Reading:

• Jorge Luis Borges Life and Works (Wikipedia)

• Culture Profile (BBC Culture)

-Rose.

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