The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. - Jorge Luis Borges

"On Dubbing" ["Sobre el doblaje"]

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.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that, sooner or later, all men will do and know all things.