"I went with my very being toward language." — Paul Celan

"I went with my very being toward language."

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27 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…
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
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…
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…
Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of…

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