It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his ….

Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradi….

The way in which I create myself is by means of a quest. I go out into the world in order to come back with a self..

The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is….

The catharsis that finalizes Dostoevsky's novels might be - of course inadequately and somewhat rationalistically - expressed in this way: nothing co….

In poetry, even discourse about doubts must be cast in a discourse that cannot be doubted..

Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the p….

In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understandin….

All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day….