Nach Auschwitz ein Gedicht zu schreiben, ist barbarisch - Theodor W. Adorno

Negative dialectics ... does not presuppose the identity of being and thought, nor does it culminate in that identity. Instead it will attempt to articulate the very opposite, namely the divergence of concept and thing, subject and object.

Kunst ist Magie, befreit von der Lüge, Wahrheit zu sein.

Elements of empirical language are manipulated in their rigidity, as if they were elements of a true and revealed language. The empirical usability of the sacred ceremonial words makes both the speaker and listener believe in their corporeal presence.