'criticism'

"landmarks often appear in retrospect,
as must the paths that lead to them"

- Raymond Roussel

"He has written all the poems I could never finish" 

- Nelly Sachs

"opinion is a weak rampart against
the despair of the people"

- Jean Meslier

"refusing to collapse in the woes of clarity, or ceasing to dismay
he will never suffer the dishonour reserved for the obvious"

- E.M. Cioran

"He makes us irrelevant" - The League of Canadian Poets
 

"I wish his Personal Dictionary was available
when I was alive"

- Pierre Bayle

"It is part of his existence to be the parasite of metaphors" 

- Bruno Schulz

 "one mind is enough for a thousand hands" 

- Goethe

"an effort to expel the minor art of an intellectual asthma
that has plagued his adolescent country" 

- Thomas Bernhard

"if you want to find the little box you must first
train yourself in miracles."

- Vasko Popa

"down a linguistic web,
something like love comes near and says:
I am silence."

- Miroslav Holub

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