Something Standing Quotes by Paul Celan

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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…
• Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
• Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against…
• How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.
• Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not…
• Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
• I went with my very being toward language.
• He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

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