Who said Paradise will be a kind of library?

Factual Questions
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I’m thinking of changing my sig line to “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Unfortunately I’m not sure who said it. I had always believed it was from Cheever (confirmed by some Internet sites), but according to one Internet site, it’s from Jorge Luis Borges in Poema de los Dones

That could be translated that way, I guess (my Spanish is very shaky). Whether the quotation is attributed to Borges or Cheever, the wording (in English) is always the same.

Who said it, and who said it first?

2

Not said by anyone working in a public library now I can tell you that.

3

I thought it was Einstein.

4

Here’s my vote for Borges, as cited on my
[quotes page.]
(http://www.crosswinds.net/~montrealais/quotes)

5

bibliophage: I found no one willing to credit Cheever for this quote, but it seems half the libraries and library associations on-line use it without attribution.

This site and this one cite El Hacedor as the source for Poema de los Dones, if that’s a help.

You might find comfort in this definition from Bierce:

"Quotation, n., The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."

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When I first came across the quotation (before I got online), the attribution was to Cheever. Unfortunately, I can’t remember where I saw it. The only Internet site I can find today that credits Cheever:

http://www.halcyon.com/njricci/

I swear there were two yesterday, but I can’t find the other one. I’m now satisfied that Borges is the true author. I’m a little surprised, but I can’t say I’m disappointed, since I like Borges so well.