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Paul Celan quotes: He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

Paul Celan quotes: Don't sign your namebetween worlds,surmountthe manifold of meanings,trust the tearstain,learn to live.

Don't sign your name
between worlds,
surmount
the manifold of meanings,
trust the tearstain,
learn to live.

Paul Celan quotes: There was earth inside them, and they dug.

There was earth inside them, and they dug.

Paul Celan quotes: How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Paul Celan quotes: The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher's Stone.

Paul Celan quotes: Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.

Paul Celan quotes: And the too much of my speaking:heaped up round the littlecrystal dressed in the style of your silence.

And the too much of my speaking:
heaped up round the little
crystal dressed in the style of your silence.

Paul Celan quotes: Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Paul Celan quotes: Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

Paul Celan quotes: Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle

Paul Celan quotes: They've healed me to pieces.

They've healed me to pieces.

Paul Celan quotes: whois invisible enoughto see you

who
is invisible enough
to see you

Paul Celan quotes: There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

Paul Celan quotes: no onebears witness for the witness

no one
bears witness for the
witness

Paul Celan quotes: Out of a shardstrewnmadnessI stand upand look upon my hand,how it draws the oneand onlycircle

Out of a shardstrewn
madness
I stand up
and look upon my hand,
how it draws the one
and only
circle

Paul Celan quotes: Your song, what does it know?Deepinsnow,Eepinow,E-i-o.

Your song, what does it know?
Deepinsnow,
Eepinow,
E-i-o.

Paul Celan quotes: Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.

Paul Celan quotes: spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower

spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower

Paul Celan quotes: Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.

Paul Celan quotes: you're rowing by wordlight

you're rowing by wordlight

Paul Celan quotes: In the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

In the air, there your root remains, there, in the air

Paul Celan quotes: I went with my very being toward language.

I went with my very being toward language.

Paul Celan quotes: The twoheart-grey puddles:twomouthsfull of silence.

The two
heart-grey puddles:
two
mouthsfull of silence.

Paul Celan quotes: Spring: trees flying up to their birds

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

Paul Celan quotes: Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

Paul Celan quotes: Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.

Paul Celan quotes: Between always and never

Between always and never

Paul Celan quotes: Rush of pine scent (once upon a time),the unlicensed convictionthere ought to be another wayof sayingthis.

Rush of pine scent (once upon a time),
the unlicensed conviction
there ought to be another way
of saying
this.

Paul Celan quotes: Death is a master from Germany.

Death is a master from Germany.

Paul Celan quotes: The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.

Paul Celan quotes: water needlesstitch up the splitshadow-he fights his waydeeper down, free.

water needles
stitch up the split
shadow-he fights his way
deeper down, free.