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“Existence is authentic when it is capable of enduring possibility right up to its extreme point, able to stride toward death as toward a possibility par excellence. It is to this movement that the essence of man in Western history owes its having become action, value, future, labor and truth.”

“What is this time when poetry can only say: what use are the poets?”

"In the work man speaks, but the work gives voice in man to what does not speak: to the unnamable, the inhuman, to what is devoid of truth, bereft of justice, without rights. Here man does not recognize himself; he does not feel justified. No longer is he present, either as a man for himself, or before God, or as a god before himself."

"Why, instead of dissipating in pure satisfaction, the joy afforded by lovely objects, or in the frivolous vanity of an escapist ego, has the passion of art ... become absolutely serious? Why has it become passion for the absolute? Why [do the names of poets signify] that in the poem a possibility subsists for which neither culture nor historical effectiveness nor even the pleasure of beautiful language can account?"

"This transformation (of the work's "intimate life") is produced to the extent that the 'empty' movement takes on content, while the work, momentarily or definitively losing its force and the intimacy of its constant genesis, unfolds as a newborn world where the values are at stake and where these values call for arbitration by some criterion or contribute to the advent of such a standard, such a truth."

"[A] movement which is free insofar as it does not submit to ... anything already present. The book ... is there, and not only its paper and ink reality but also its essence. It is there as a web of stable meanings, as the assertiveness which it owes to a preestablished language, and as the enclosure, too, formed around it by the community of all readers, among which I, who have not read it, already have a place."