Few authors have observed the world with as much attention in recent decades as Peter Handke; and this attention is a perception that validates. It does not need to be translated into language, as it is language itself; the gaze is the word in which the seen truly feels perceived. Time and again, this poet succeeds in presenting the world in such a way that it comes to the fore, and it recognizes itself, and we recognize it. He has always excelled in this particularly in his notes and diaries. In the years following the turn of the millennium, Peter Handke increasingly engaged in condensing his observations into aphoristic formulations that provide the reader with impulses into open terrain, where they encounter the world in a novel and refreshing way through the caravan of sentences.