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    • Paul Celan

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    French-Romanian poet and translator

    Paul Celanwas a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator.

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    essayist

    lyricist

    poet

    translator

    About the Paul Celan

    Paul Celanwas a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator. Celan is regarded as one of the most important figures in German-language literature of the post-World War II era and a poet whose verse has gained an immortal place in the literary pantheon. Celan’s poetry, with its many radical poetic and linguistic innovations, is characterized by a complicated and cryptic style that deviates from poetic conventions.

    4 Quotes by Paul Celan

    1. 1.

      Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

      Paul Celan

      French-Romanian poet and translator

    2. 2.

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

      Paul Celan

      French-Romanian poet and translator

    3. 3.

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

      Paul Celan

      French-Romanian poet and translator

    4. 4.

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

      Paul Celan

      French-Romanian poet and translator