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title: "2 Dark Hard Quotes By Paul Celan"
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> [The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/the-heart-hid-still-in-the-dark-hard-as-the-philosophers-stone/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

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> [The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/the-heart-hid-still-in-the-dark-hard-as-the-philosopher-s-stone/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

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## More by Paul Celan

> [“Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends. From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk: then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/autumn-eats-its-leaf-out-of-my-hand-we-are-friends-from-the-nuts-we/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [Tall poplars--human beings of this earth!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/tall-poplars-human-beings-of-this-earth/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [Death is a master from Germany.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/death-is-a-master-from-germany/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [“spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/spills-of-mire-i-swallowed-inside-the-tower/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [We are told that when Hölderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/we-are-told-that-when-h-lderlin-went-mad-he-constantly-repeated/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [He speaks truly who speaks the shade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/he-speaks-truly-who-speaks-the-shade/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [“Your hair waves once more when I weep. With the blue of your eyes you lay the table of love: a bed between summer…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/your-hair-waves-once-more-when-i-weep-with-the-blue-of-your-eyes-you/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [They've healed me to pieces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/they-ve-healed-me-to-pieces/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/poetry-is-perhaps-this-an-atemwende-a-turning-of-our-breath-who-knows/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [There was earth inside them, and they dug.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/there-was-earth-inside-them-and-they-dug/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/read-read-all-the-time-the-understanding-will-come-by-itself/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [“Schwerer werden. Leichter sein.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/schwerer-werden-leichter-sein/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [“Autunm eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends. From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk: then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/autunm-eats-its-leaf-out-of-my-hand-we-are-friends-from-the-nuts-we/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/reality-is-not-simply-there-it-must-be-searched-and-won/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

> [Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/don-t-sign-your-name-between-worlds-surmount-the-manifold-of-meanings/)

[Paul Celan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-celan/)

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