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

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

- Edmond Jabes

Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.

- Edmond Jabes

What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

- Edmond Jabes

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

- Edmond Jabes

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

- 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.

- Edmond Jabes

One rose is enough for the dawn

- Edmond Jabes

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

- Edmond Jabes