What can I use to keep you? I give you poor streets, desperate sunsets and the moon in the broken suburbs.

This sentence comes from what can I keep you? This is a modern poem written by Argentine poet Jorges Luis Borges.

The original text is:

What can I use to keep you? I give you poor streets, desperate sunsets and the moon in the broken suburbs.

I give you the sorrow of a man who has been looking at the moon for a long time. I give you my dead ancestors, and people commemorate their ghosts with marble.

I give you all the insight I can include in the book, all the masculinity or humor I can have in my life.

I give you the loyalty of someone you never trusted.

I'll give you the core that I'm trying to preserve-the core that doesn't make words and sentences, doesn't trade dreams, and isn't moved by time, joy and adversity.

I give you the memory of a yellow rose, which you saw one night many years before you were born.

I'll give you your own explanation, your own theory, your own real and amazing news.

I give you my loneliness, my darkness and my inner desire; I tried to impress you with confusion, danger and failure.

Jorges Luis Borges

Male, Argentine poet, novelist, essayist and translator, famous as an archaeologist among writers. Born in Buenos Aires to a British lawyer family. Go to middle school in Geneva and go to university in Cambridge.

Proficient in English, French, German and other languages. His works cover many literary categories, including essays, poems, literary criticism and translated literature. Among them, Latin meaningful words and profound philosophy are good at it.