As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.
As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words… - Edmond Jabes
As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words…
- Edmond Jabes
What is not grasped has all the chances to become real. - Edmond Jabes
What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed. - Edmond Jabes
We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood. - Edmond Jabes
Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place. - Edmond Jabes
To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.
One rose is enough for the dawn - Edmond Jabes
One rose is enough for the dawn
Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever? - Edmond Jabes
Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this. - Edmond Jabes
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter. - Edmond Jabes
Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.
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