Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.
About Paul Celan
Paul Celanwas a Romanian-born French poet, Holocaust survivor, and literary translator.
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Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
Paul Celan
French-Romanian poet and translator
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
Reality is not simply there, it must be searched and won.
Paul Celan
French-Romanian poet and translator
The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosopher’s Stone.
Paul Celan
French-Romanian poet and translator