1.
Speak, you too,speak as the last one,
have your say.
Speak--
But do not separate the no from the yes.
Give your saying also meaning:
give it its shadow.
Give it enough shadow,
give it as much
as you know to be parceled out between
midnight and midday and midnight.
Look around:
see how alive it gets all around--
At death! Alive!
Speaks true, who speaks shadows.
But now the place shrinks, on which you stand:
Whereto now, shadow-stripped one, whereto?
Climb. Feel yourself upwards.
Thinner you become, unrecognizable, finer!
Finer: a fathom
along which it wants to descend, the star:
to swim down below, below
where he sees himself swimming: in the swell
of wandering words.
(translated by Pierre Joris)
2.
As for God, quoting Kafka:
"Sometimes yes, sometimes no."
("Sometimes God, sometimes nothing.")
(Jean Daive on Paul Celan)
3.
Is stammering a waste of words?
Yes and No.
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