Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I believe in the writer's mission. He receives it from the word, which carries its suffering and its hope within it. He questions the words, which question him. He accompanies the words, which accompany him. The initiative is shared, as if spontaneous.

Edmond Jabes's Popular Quotes

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

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One rose is enough for the dawn

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

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