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

Death is a master from Germany.

- Paul Celan

The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.

- Paul Celan

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

- 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

who is invisible enough to see you

- Paul Celan

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

- Paul Celan

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

- Paul Celan