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

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Source : Edmond Jabès, Keith Waldrop (1988). “If There Were Anywhere But Desert: The Selected Poems of Edmond Jabès”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

Edmond Jabes

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“A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.”
“Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man”
“All the masterpieces of art contain both light and shadow. A happy life is not one filled with only sunshine, but one which uses both light and shadow to produce beauty.”
“There are always more people who prefer to speak than to listen.”
“I always knew I could rap, and in a sense I always rapped. And I've always behaved like a rapper. But I started to take it seriously when I recorded with the people of Brick when I started to receive some money.”

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“My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!”
“I come at a subject from a profoundly photographic level. I am not interested in pictures that ultimately don't work as pictures.”
“Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres”

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