SOURCE: "The Nightmare, That Tiger of the Dream," in Borges at Eighty: Conversations, edited by Willis Barnstone, Indiana University Press, 1982, pp. 135-52.
In the following interview, Borges discusses the poetic influences of Walt Whitman, Edgar A. Poe, and others.
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