"With a changing key, you unlock the house……" — Paul Celan
"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 mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow."
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Paul Celan
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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…
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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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