Jorge Luis Borges

My Entire Life

Here once again, my lips memory-laden, unique  and yet similar to you.
 
I am that torpid intensity which is a soul.
 
I have persisted in the approach to joy and the favoring of pain.
 
I have crossed the sea.
 
I have practiced my lands; I have seen a woman and two or three men.
 
I have loved a white and haughty girl of Hispanic quietude.
 
I have seen an infinite suburb where an insatiable immortality of sunsets are accomplished.
 
I have seen some fields where the raw flesh of guitar was painful.
 
I have savored numerous words.
 
I deeply believe that that is all and that I will neither see nor do anything new.
 
I believe that my days and my nights are equal in poverty and richness to those of God and those of all men.
 
Translated by Anthony Kerrigan

Luna de enfrente (1925)

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