With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what’s 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.
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
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
Death is a master from Germany.
The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone. - Paul Celan
The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.
A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose. - Paul Celan
A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.
Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won. - Paul Celan
Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.
Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself. - Paul Celan
Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.
who is invisible enough to see you - Paul Celan
who is invisible enough to see you
Spring: trees flying up to their birds - Paul Celan
Spring: trees flying up to their birds
He speaks truly who speaks the shade. - Paul Celan
He speaks truly who speaks the shade.
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