Today's truth (or why I will always write)

"...I do not know whether music can despair of music or marble of marble. I do know that literature is an art that can foresee the time when it will be silenced, an art that can become inflamed with its own virtue, fall in love with its own decline, and court its own demise."
---Jorge Luis Borges (1931), "The Superstitious Ethics of the Reader"