Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Source: Ficciones, The Secret Miracle, 1944.
-- Jorge Luis Borges, (Aug 24 1899-1986), Argentine poet, short-story writer; He was leader of modernist Ultraist literary movement in S. America combining surrealism and imagism.