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Famous Paul Celan Quotes

“who
is invisible enough
to see you”

Paul Celan

“They've healed me to pieces.”

Paul Celan

“Spring: trees flying up to their birds”

Paul Celan

“Don't sign your name
between worlds,

surmount
the manifold of meanings,

trust the tearstain,
learn to live.”

Paul Celan

Source: Glottal Stop

“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

“Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”

Paul Celan

Paul Celan Quotes

“We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street:
it is time they knew!
It is time the stone made an effort to flower,
time unrest had a beating heart.
It is time it were time.It is time.”

Paul Celan

"Corona" In: Paul Celan, ‎Pierre Joris (2005). Paul Celan: Selections. p. 44

“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

Source: Poems of Paul Celan

“There was earth inside them, and they dug.”

Paul Celan

“you're rowing by wordlight”

Paul Celan

“A little stallion gallops across the leafing fingers-
Black the gate leaps open, I sing;
How did we live here?”

Paul Celan

"Tallow Lamp" in: Paul Celan (1972) Selected poems. p. 22

“You opened your eyes -I saw my darkness live. I see through it down to the bed; there too it is mine and lives.”

Paul Celan

"From Darkness to Darkness," in: Donald Wesling, ‎Tadeusz Sławek (1995). Literary Voice: The Calling of Jonah. p. 54

“Aspen tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.”

Paul Celan

"Aspen Tree. . ."; cited in: Ruth Golan (2006). Loving Psychoanalysis. p. 61

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