Paul Celan Quotes

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• A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly…
• Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
• Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
• I went with my very being toward language.
• He speaks truly who speaks the shade.
• Death is a master from Germany.
• Spring: trees flying up to their birds
• With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode…
• Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
• rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.
• Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
• Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.
• 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 just…
• Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.
• There was earth inside them, and they dug.
• How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.
• Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and…
• 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…
• Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in…
• in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

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