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Edmond Jabes - From the Acceptance category:
The hand opens to the word, opens to distance. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Beginning category:
- The Book of Questions...
One rose is enough for the dawn. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Books category:
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Creativity category:
It is not certainty which is creative, but the uncertainty we are pledged to in our works. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Finishing category:
...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 we write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish... There is my desert. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Fire category:
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)
Edmond Jabes - From the Listening category:
Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Purpose category:
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. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Reality category:
What is not grasped has all the chances to become real. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Silence category:
You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to lose 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. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Solitude category:
Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Words category:
The soul has words as petals. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Words category:
How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Writing category:
You are the one who writes and the one who is written. (Edmond Jabes)
Edmond Jabes - From the Writing category:
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. (Edmond Jabes)
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