Edmond Jabes Quotes

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

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

— Edmond Jabes

What is not grasped has all the chances to become real. Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

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

— Edmond Jabes

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to

— Edmond Jabes

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

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

— Edmond Jabes

It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is

— Edmond Jabes

As long as we are not chased from our words we have Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

As long as we are not chased from our words we have

— Edmond Jabes

Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood. Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

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

— Edmond Jabes

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place

— Edmond Jabes

The soul has words as petals. Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

The soul has words as petals.

— Edmond Jabes

My hands are full when you give me your hand. Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

— Edmond Jabes

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.

— Edmond Jabes

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things. Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

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

— Edmond Jabes

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like

— Edmond Jabes

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance. Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

The hand opens to the word, opens to distance.

— Edmond Jabes

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its

— Edmond Jabes

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word

— Edmond Jabes

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am

— Edmond Jabes

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it

— Edmond Jabes

One wound is enough to feed the open wounds of the sky. Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

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

— Edmond Jabes

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it, Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

THE WRITER can get free of his writing only by using it,

— Edmond Jabes

One rose is enough for the dawn Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

One rose is enough for the dawn

— Edmond Jabes

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

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

— Edmond Jabes

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but

— Edmond Jabes

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose

— Edmond Jabes

I believe in the writer’s mission. He receives it from the word, Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

I believe in the writer’s mission. He receives it from the word,

— Edmond Jabes

By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death Edmond Jabes Picture Quote

By the light of our insistent truths we wander into death

— Edmond Jabes

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