A writer, or any man, must believe that whatever happens to him is an instrument; everything has been given for an end. This is even stronger in the case of the artist. Everything that happens, including humiliations, embarrassments, misfortunes, all has been given like clay, like material for one’s art. One must accept it.
Jorge Luis Borges, born on this day in 1899, from Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges: Including a Selection of Poems
A conversation with Buckley from the February 1, 1977 airing of Firing Line ...
If I say, for example, that "the moon is the mirror of time," that’s a fine metaphor, don’t you think?
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