What are the motifs in Selected Poems by Jorge Luis Borges?

Memory and forgetting are ways that Borges approaches the big questions in his life. His fascination with how we exist in the moment and yet belong, in a sense, to the past is best addressed in his poetry through dredging his memory. For him, memory is not just the act of thinking back. It is also a re-imagining of reality, but an imperfect one that can provide only an approximation of what happened.