Friedrich

“Erst wenn ich dich
als Schatten berühre,
glaubst du mir meinen
Mund,

der klettert mit Spät-
sinnigem droben
in Zeithöfen
umher,

du stößt zur Heerschar
der Zweitverwerter unter
den Engeln,

Schweigewütiges
sternt.”
― Paul Celan

“No one understood, she thought, the horrible, insidious, snake-like fear which could run through one’s body, sapping one’s will to the point when one behaved foolishly simply because one could not think clearly.”
― Barbara Cartland, Call of the Heart

“Contextualism is only the flipside of logocentrism.”
― Jürgen Habermas, Postmetaphysical Thinking: Philosophical Essays

“Your opening needs to be a kind of pleasant shock therapy. It should grab people. And in grabbing them, it should both awe the guests and honor them. It must plant in them the paradoxical feeling of being totally welcomed and deeply grateful to be there.”
― Priya Parker, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters