BORGES JORGE LUIS Poem THE STREETS Full English TEXT Poetry
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Jorge Luis Borges
The Streets
( Spanish: Las calles )
from book: ” Fervor of Buenos Aires “
Argentine poems
Full text translated into English
Argentine literature
” The Streets ” (Spanish: “Las calles”) is the poem by Jorge Luis Borges that opens his poetry collection “Fervor de Buenos Aires” (1923), the first book by Jorge Luis Borges after his return to Buenos Aires in 1921.
” The Streets “ inaugurates Borges’ representations of the capital city of Buenos Aires transformed over time, and begins his response to the question of what the desired world, the desired city, might be.
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Jorge Luis Borges
The Streets
Full text translated into English
Argentine Poem
My soul is in the streets
of Buenos Aires.
Not the greedy streets
jostling with crowds and traffic,
but the neighborhood streets where nothing is happening,
almost invisible by force of habit,
rendered eternal in the dim light of sunset,
and the ones even farther out,
empty of comforting trees,
where austere little houses scarcely venture,
overwhelmed by deathless distances,
losing themselves in the deep expanse
of sky and plains.
For the solitary one they are a promise
because thousands of singular souls inhabit them,
unique before God and in time
and no doubt precious.
To the West, the North, and the South
unfold the streets–and they too are my country;
within these lines I trace
may their flags fly.
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Jorge Luis Borges – The Streets
original Spanish: Las calles
from Book: ” Fervor of Buenos Aires “
Argentine literature – Poems
Full text translated into English
Jorge Luis Borges Las calles Original Spanish text > here
Jorge Luis Borges All writings > here
Jorge Luis Borges
Jorge Luis Borges (Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo, 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish-language literature.
Jorge Luis Borges’ works have contributed to philosophical literature and the fantasy genre.
Jorge Luis Borges is famous both for his fantastic tales, in which he has been able to combine philosophical and metaphysical ideas with the classic themes of the fantastic and for his wider production of poems.
