"Do you see over yonder, friend Sancho, thirty or forty hulking giants? I intend to do battle with them and slay them."

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We did meet forty years ago. At that time we were both influenced by Whitman and I said, jokingly in part, 'I don't think anything can be done in Spanish, do you?' Neruda agreed, but we decided it was too late for us to write our verse in English. We'd have to make the best of a second-rate literature.

— Jorge Luis Borges