Of the many generations of books on earth
I have only read a few,
the few that in my mind I go on reading still—
reading and changing.
Jorge Luis Borges
from In Praise of Darkness
trans. Norman Thomas di Giovanni, 1969
these poems
Of the generations of texts on earth
I have only read a few—
the ones that I keep reading in my memory—
reading and transforming.
from “In Praise of Darkness”
trans. Hoyt Rogers, from Selected Poems 1999
