Argentine Poets Quotes

Oh, Buenos Aires, I have traveled around the world, but I’ve never been separated from you,” said Argentine poet Jorge Luis Borges. And Saint Thomas said, “A friendship that can end has never been a true friendship.” In

Nostalgia—the nostalgia for our roots—is a healthy feeling, since people with no roots are lost, and a person with no roots is sick. Roots give us the strength to move forward, to bear fruit, to blossom, as the Argentine poet Francisco Luis Bernárdez said: “Por lo que el árbol tiene de florido / vive de lo que tiene sepultado.” (All that has blossomed on the tree / lives on that which holds it underground.)