Pablo

'Wagner's poetry is all about revelling in the German language, the warmth and candour in his communion with it, something that as such cannot be felt by any other German writer except Goethe. Earthiness of expression, reckless terseness, control and rhythmic diversity, an extraordinary richness of powerful and significant words, the simplification of syntactical constructions, an almost unique inventiveness in the language of surging feeling and presentiment, and every now and then a totally pure bubbling forth of colloquialisms and proverbs – we ought to make a list of such characteristics, and even then we would forget the most powerful and admirable of them . . . the forging of a distinctive new language for each work and the giving of a new body and a new sound to each new interior world.' Friedrich Nietzsche