A few days before he died, Claudel remarked that we should not call God infinite but inexhaustible. As if it did not come down to the same thing, or just about! All the same, this concern for exactitude, this verbal scruple at the moment that he was writing that his lease on life had nearly expired, is more inspiring than a sublime word or gesture. * Once I formulate a doubt, or more exactly, once I feel the need to formulate a doubt, I experience a curious, disturbing well-being. It would be far easier for me to live without a trace of belief than without a trace of doubt. Devastating doubt, nourishing doubt! * Listening to the weather report, I feel a strong response to the words scattered rain. Which certainly proves that poetry is in ourselves and not in the expression, though scattered is an adjective capable of setting up a certain vibration. * There is no false sensation. —E. M. Cioran
Posted on: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 16:57:01 +0000
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