Quotes by Edmond Jabes - Page 1

The soul has words as petals.
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Petals
Soul
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One rose is enough for the dawn
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Beauty
Dawn
Enough
Rose
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My hands are full when you give me your hand.
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Give Me
Giving
Hands
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The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.
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Distance
Hands
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Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
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Blood
Humiliated
I Can
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One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.
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Enough
Sky
Wounds
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What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.
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Chance
Real
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By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death
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Light
Wander
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Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.
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Ears
Invisibility
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Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.
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Country
Poet
Use
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We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.
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Distance
Emptiness
Numbness
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The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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Book
Unbearable
Writing
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It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.
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Certainty
Creative
Creativity
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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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Dark
Forever
Sun
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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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Emptiness
Empty
Speak
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For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.
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Discovering
Miracle
Writing
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God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.
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Book
Burning
Flames
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In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.
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Morning
Color
Night
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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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Language
Silence
Weakness
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Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)
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Book
Littles
Solitude
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How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
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Bird
Doubt
Nests
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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.
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Long
Soul
Voice
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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.
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Believe
Purpose
Suffering
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THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, that is, by reading oneself. As if the aim of writing were to use what is already written as a launching pad for reading the writing to come. Moreover, what he has written is read in the process, hence constantly modified by his reading. The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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Book
Reading
Writing
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It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak.
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Death
Journey
Real
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.
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Book
Reading
Writing
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