Jorge Luis Borges vs. E. M. Forster
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jorge Luis Borges
1899 – 1986
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, and poet renowned for his labyrinthine, metaphysical fictions and influential collections like Ficciones and The Aleph.
"Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time."
E. M. Forster
1879 – 1970
Edward Morgan Forster was an English author. He is best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as biographies and pageant plays.
"I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they th…"
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