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You cannot run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.

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Paul Celan

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

Inception, Loneliness, Lonely, Poem, Poetry
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Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Basic, Hands, Inspirational, Poem, See, Writing

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Close, Language, Loss, Spite, Yes

A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.

Heart, Poems, Reality, Sea, Strong, Thinking

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

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German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry. . . . Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty. " It tries to be truthful.

Beauty, Become, Factual, Poetry, Sober, Truth
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