"There was earth inside them, and they dug." — Paul Celan
"There was earth inside them, and they dug."
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27 Quotes by Paul Celan
Paul Celan has 27 quotes on this site.
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A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out…
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Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
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Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
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I went with my very being toward language.
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He speaks truly who speaks the shade.
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Death is a master from Germany.
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Spring: trees flying up to their birds
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With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me…
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Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
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rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.
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Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
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Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained…
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More Dug Quotes
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one of 123 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
— Ray Charles
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The general must be the first in the toils and fatigues of the army. In the heat of summer he…
— Sun Tzu
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Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat…
— Mao Zedong
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My garden is a slow work, pursued with love and I do not deny that I am proud of it.…
— Claude Monet
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I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.
— Casper Van Dien
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One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by…
— Carl Linnaeus
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The weeds of a seemingly learned and brilliant but actually trivial and empty philosophy of Nature which, after having been…
— Hermann Kolbe
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Because of this basin of repentance and knowledge of God, which has been ordained for the transgression of God's people,…
— Justin Martyr
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Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue…
— GZA
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If you leave the pool you have dug for yourself and go out into the river of life then life…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why…
— Abigail Spencer
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