Simplicity
Simplicity - meaning Summary
Acceptance as Simple Reality
Borges meditates on the quiet value of being known and unassuming. The speaker moves through familiar social space with memories replacing observation, needing neither speech nor praise. The poem frames true attainment not as triumph but as plain acceptance into a collective, “undeniable Reality.” The final image—being accepted like stones and trees—suggests spiritual grace found in humility, continuity, and belonging rather than distinction or achievement.
Read Complete AnalysesIt opens, the gate to the garden with the docility of a page that frequent devotion questions and inside, my gaze has no need to fix on objects that already exist, exact, in memory. I know the customs and souls and that dialect of allusions that every human gathering goes weaving. I've no need to speak nor claim false privilege; they know me well who surround me here, know well my afflictions and weakness. This is to reach the highest thing, that Heaven perhaps will grant us: not admiration or victory but simply to be accepted as part of an undeniable Reality, like stones and trees.
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