Imaginary Axis

Famous quotes containing the words imaginary and/or axis:

    Where my imaginary line
    Bends square in woods, an iron spine
    And pile of real rocks have been founded.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    A book is not an autonomous entity: it is a relation, an axis of innumerable relations. One literature differs from another, be it earlier or later, not because of the texts but because of the way they are read: if I could read any page from the present time—this one, for instance—as it will be read in the year 2000, I would know what the literature of the year 2000 would be like.
    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)