“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

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Romanian poet and translator 1920–1970

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