Consciousness is an elastic structure. However, before it becomes language, it must embark on a journey through the body. In these poetry lectures, Marica Bodrozic reveals her own space of thought and writing, demonstrating how, for example, the hand contributes to the "Republic of Poetry." For her, life and writing, reader and author form a unity within these language-philosophical circles, occurring against the backdrop of silence. The hearing of words that bring forth the essential without repeating themselves shapes a spiritual core in these reflections and points to authors like Francis Ponge or Edmond Jabès, who have also contributed to this core. "The eye behind the eye" serves here as an ally of creative power and a synonym for the inner silence that participates in the mystery. Play arises from the intersections of beauty and language.