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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.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death

One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.

It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works.

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle
and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite

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

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

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

[W]andering creates the desert.

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

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

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

the soul has words as petals

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)

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

One rose is enough for the dawn

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

A great love carries within it a mourning for love.

We will gather images and images of images up till the last, which is blank. This one we will agree on. (Reb Carasso)

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