Poem

I need these words to take flight and land.

Please, leave a gap in the canopy for the waves

that spin me through the rock of material time,

that let me be where I am not /what 

I am not. Let lines and sounds - manipulations

of light and vibration - be limbs and leaves

that touch-reach-invite returning to the roots.

Waste nothing; transmute the fallen parts.

Hear my conviction that I am another you.

—NS

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To approach the other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at each instant he overflows the idea a thought would carry away from it. It is therefore to receive from the Other beyond the capacity of the I, which means exactly: to have the idea of infinity.

- Emmanuel Levinas in Totality and Infinity p. 51