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

About Paul Celan

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

Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

French-Romanian poet and translator

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

French-Romanian poet and translator

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

French-Romanian poet and translator

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

French-Romanian poet and translator