Paul Celan

Paul Celan (23 November 1920 – c. 20 April 1970) was a Romanian-born French German-language poet and translator.

Quotes

 * A little stallion gallops across the leafing fingers- Black the gate leaps open, I sing; How did we live here?
 * "Tallow Lamp" in: Paul Celan (1972) Selected poems. p. 22


 * Aspen tree, your leaves glance white into the dark.
 * "Aspen Tree. . ."; cited in: Ruth Golan (2006). Loving Psychoanalysis. p. 61
 * We stand by the window embracing, and people look up from the street: it is time they knew! It is time the stone made an effort to flower, time unrest had a beating heart. It is time it were time. It is time.
 * "Corona" In: Paul Celan, ‎Pierre Joris (2005). Paul Celan: Selections. p. 44


 * You opened your eyes -I saw my darkness live. I see through it down to the bed; there too it is mine and lives.
 * "From Darkness to Darkness," in: Donald Wesling, ‎Tadeusz Sławek (1995). Literary Voice: The Calling of Jonah. p. 54

Quotes about Paul Celan

 * Am I not the poet of witness? Am I not a disciple of Nellie Sachs and Paul Celan trying to describe the horrors of the Holocaust, meanwhile inventing a new lyric, which questions the possibility/impossibility of poetry after the most heinous episodes of history?
 * Marilyn Chin A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems (2018)