animal, to carry, to endure

The souvenir is the relic secularized.

"No theory today escapes the marketplace. Each one is offered as a possibility among competing opinions; all are put up for a choice; all are swallowed. There are no blinders for thought to don against this, and the self-righteous conviction that my own theory is spared that fate will surely deteriorate into self-advertising. But neither need dialectics be muted by such rebuke, or by the concomitant charge of its superfluity, of being a method slapped on outwardly, at random. The name of dialectics says no more, to begin with, than that objects do not go into concepts without leaving a remainder,"

When the world has been reduced to a single dark wood for our four astonished eyes — to a beach for two loyal children — to a musical house for our clear sympathy —

"If I were a butcher I would write about butchers and carnivals, and if I were a professional magician I would write about the world, sometimes full of resentment, of the magicians. I am or, more appropriately, I was a poet, which is the same as being nothing. And I write about what I know best. Also about what has let me down the most. And about what I admire most. The territory of poetry is the only territory, along with that of pain, where it is still possible to get lost, where it is possible to find wonderful formulas (or better said: the 'half' of a formula), and where one, consciously or not, puts his own life at stake."

“Political activity is whatever shifts a body from the place assigned to it or changes a place’s destination. It makes visible what had no business being seen, and makes heard a discourse where once there was only noise.”

“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”