by Jorge Luis Borges
| A haze of gold, the Occident lights up The window. Now, the assiduous manuscript Is waiting, weighed down with the infinite. Someone is building God in a dark cup. A man engenders God. He is a Jew. With saddened eyes and lemon-colored skin; Time carries him the way a leaf, dropped in A river, is borne off by waters to Its end. No matter. The magician moved Carves out his God with fine geometry; From his disease, from nothing, he's begun To construct God, using the word. No one Is granted such prodigious love as he: The love that has no hope of being loved. |
SOURCE: Borges, Jorge Luis. "Baruch Spinoza" [from The Unending Rose], translation by Willis Barnstone, in Borges' Selected Poems, edited by Alexander Coleman. (New York: Viking, 1999), p. 383.
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"Spinoza" poem by Jorge Luis Borges
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Hajkoj kaj Tankaoj de Jorge Luis Borges, tradukis Carlos A. Castrillón
La Biblioteko de Babelo de Jorge Luis Borges, tradukis Gulio Cappa [in Esperanto]
A Taxonomy of Surreal Taxonomists by Prentiss Riddle
The Cyclical Night: Irony in James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges by L. A. Murrilo
"Zu Spinozas Ethik" (On Spinoza's Ethics) — poem by Albert Einstein
Heinrich Heine on Spinoza and Our Lenses
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"Spinoza, the First Secular Jew?" by Yirmiyahu Yovel
Spinoza’s World-View by A. M. Deborin
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