“Paradise will be a kind of library”

— Jorge Luis Borges , Dreamtigers

Poem of the Gifts ["Poema de los Dones"]
Dreamtigers (1960)
Variant: I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

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Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

Variant: Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca.
Source: Poema de los dones, 1960
Source: http://www.poesi.as/jlb0402.htm

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Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

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