"I feel now, as never before, that
a poem is the condensed power of all human
abilities, and that its ideal lies
in the power of language to transcend itself."
a poem is the condensed power of all human
abilities, and that its ideal lies
in the power of language to transcend itself."
– Edvard Kocbek, from Nothing Is Lost: Selected Poems, trans. Michael Scammell and Veno Taufer
