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> [With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-celan/with-a-changing-key-you-unlock-the-house-where-the-snow-of-what-s/)

[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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