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Celan Quotes & Sayings

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He speaks truly who speaks the shade. — Paul Celan

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

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry is a sort of homecoming. — Paul Celan

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

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

They've healed me to pieces. — Paul Celan

who
is invisible enough
to see you — Paul Celan

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

no one
bears witness for the
witness — Paul Celan

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

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

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

spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower — Paul Celan

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

you're rowing by wordlight — Paul Celan

In the air, there your root remains, there, in the air — Paul Celan

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

The two
heart-grey puddles:
two
mouthsfull of silence. — Paul Celan

Spring: trees flying up to their birds — Paul Celan

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

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

Between always and never — Paul Celan

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

Death is a master from Germany. — Paul Celan

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

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