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Edmond Jabes 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 keep their sense we have a soul.
         

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

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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?



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.



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.



My hands are full when you give me your hand.

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