25 Quotes by Edmond Jabès

One rose is enough for the dawn.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

The soul has words as petals.

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

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

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

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

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

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