'Language is not, as we are led to suppose by the dictionary, the invention of academicians or philologists. Rather, it has been evolved through time, through a long time, by peasants, by fishermen, by hunters, by riders. It did not come from the libraries; it came from the fields, from the sea, from rivers, from night, from the dawn.'
Jorge Luis Borges, This Craft of Verse, The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1967-1968, Harvard University Press (2000; p. 81).
Portret Jorge Luis Borges: The phantom country.
