"Spring: trees flying up to their birds" — Paul Celan

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27 Quotes by Paul Celan

Paul Celan has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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.
I went with my very being toward language.
He speaks truly who speaks the shade.
Death is a master from Germany.
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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More Bird Quotes

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Gliders, sail planes, they're wonderful flying machines. It's the closest you can come to being a bird. — Neil Armstrong
What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and… — David Attenborough
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone… — David Attenborough
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know… — David Attenborough
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime… — John James Audubon
It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you. — Abu Bakr
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that… — Douglas Adams
What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God has given a stream, a fish,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Since I had my gastric bypass surgery in 1998, I eat like a bird. Unfortunately, that bird is a California… — Roseanne Barr
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
I used to live a very social life and never spend much solitary time looking at birds or reading. — Lynda Barry
A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? — Drew Barrymore

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