Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
Interpretation
The quote suggests that every action we take has a specific intention or purpose, often unknown to others.
In this quote, Paul Celan reflects on the intricate and often hidden nature of our intentions and the impact of our actions. Each 'arrow' symbolizes a directed choice or effort, with its own unique destination and significance, reminding us that our motivations and outcomes are often shrouded in mystery, both to ourselves and to others.
In practice
This quote could be used in a discussion about the importance of intentions in creative work.
With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of whatβs silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow.
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the βnot always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.
Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
no one bears witness for the witness
in the air, there your root remains, there, in the air
Movies, they take years of my life, so I'm fortunate that I get to work in a lot of different mediums.
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.
Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.
A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.
I would feel dead if I didn't have the ability periodically to put my world in order with a poem. I think to be inarticulate is a great suffering, and is especially so to anyone who has a certain knack for poetry.
Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders.
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