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

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: My hands are full when you give me your hand.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

Edmond Jabes quotes: By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death

By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death

Edmond Jabes quotes: One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: Nothingness is a sigh of eternity, a casual avowal of the infinite

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: Wound me ... I can only feed on my humiliated blood.

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

Edmond Jabes quotes: What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: [W]andering creates the desert.

[W]andering creates the desert.

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

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

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

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: the soul has words as petals

the soul has words as petals

Edmond Jabes quotes: 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)

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)

Edmond Jabes quotes: Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: One rose is enough for the dawn

One rose is enough for the dawn

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

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

Edmond Jabes quotes: A great love carries within it a mourning for love.

A great love carries within it a mourning for love.

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

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

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

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