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Paul Celan

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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


#poetry #life

Wer auf dem Kopf geht, der hat den Himmel als Abgrund unter sich.


— Paul Celan


#love-of-life #positive-thinking #inspirational

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


— Paul Celan


#basic #between #cannot #difference #hands

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.


— Paul Celan


#poetry #sort

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


— Paul Celan


#reality #searched #simply #won

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


— Paul Celan


#hard #heart #hid #philosopher #still






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He was born as Paul Antschel into a Jewish family in the former Kingdom of Romania (now Ukraine) and changed his name to "Paul Celan" (where Celan in Romanian would be pronounced Chelan and was derived from Ancel pronounced AntPaul Celanl) becoming one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. Paul Celan (23 November 1920 – c.

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