Jorge Luis Borges - A Poet's Creed (Lecture 1968)

“The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry.“ Jorge Luis Borges This is the last of the six Norton Lectures that Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) delivered at Harvard University in the fall of 1967 and spring of 1968 (“The Craft of Verse“). Nearing both 70 years of age and total blindness, Borges nonetheless gives a virtuosically wide-ranging series of talks, freely reaching across forms, countries, eras, and languages without the aid of n