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With a changing key, you unlo...

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.

Paul Celan 41 quotes

A nothing we were, are, shall...

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

Paul Celan 41 quotes

Reality is not simply there, ...

Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.

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How you die out in me: down t...

How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

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Poetry is perhaps this: an At...

Poetry is perhaps this: an Atemwende, a turning of our breath. Who knows, perhaps poetry goes its way—the way of art—for the sake of just such a turn? And since the strange, the abyss and Medusa’s head, the abyss and the automaton, all seem to lie in the same direction—is it perhaps this turn, this Atemwende, which can sort out the strange from the strange? It is perhaps here, in this one brief moment, that Medusa’s head shrivels and the automaton runs down? Perhaps, along with the I, estranged and freed here, in this manner, some other thing is also set free?

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Reachable, near and not lost,...

Reachable, near and not lost, there remained in the midst of the losses this one thing: language. It, the language, remained, not lost, yes, in spite of everything. But it had to pass through its own answerlessness, pass through frightful muting, pass through the thousand darknesses of deathbringing speech. It passed through and gave back no words for that which happened; yet it passed through this happening. Passed through and could come to light again, “enriched” by all this.

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A poem, as a manifestation of...

A poem, as a manifestation of language and thus essentially dialogue, can be a message in a bottle, sent out in the –not always greatly hopeful-belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps. Poems in this sense too are under way: they are making toward something. Toward what? Toward something standing open, occupiable, perhaps toward an addressable Thou, toward an addressable reality.

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German poetry is going in a v...

German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful.

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There's nothing in the world ...

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

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Spring: trees flying up to th...

Spring: trees flying up to their birds

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Count up the almonds, Count w...

Count up the almonds, Count what was bitter and kept you waking, Count me in too: I sought your eye when you glanced up and no one would see you, I spun that secret thread Where the dew you mused on Slid down to pitchers Tended by a word that reached no one’s heart. There you first fully entered the name that is yours, you stepped to yourself on steady feet, the hammers swung free in the belfry of your silence, things overheard thrust through to you, what’s dead put it’s arm around you too, and the three of you walked through the evening. Render me bitter. Number me among the almonds

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The poem is lonely. It is lon...

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?

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With wine and being lost, wit...

With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode God near, he sang, it was our last ride over the hurdled humans. They cowered when they heard us overhead, they wrote, they lied our neighing into one of their image-ridden languages.

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no one bears witness for the ...

no one bears witness for the witness

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A poem, being an instance of ...

A poem, being an instance of language, hence essentially dialogue, may be a letter in a bottle thrown out to the sea with the-surely not always strong-hope that it may somehow wash up somewhere, perhaps on the shoreline of the heart. In this way, too, poems are en route: they are headed towards. Toward what? Toward something open, inhabitable, an approachable you, perhaps, an approachable reality. Such realities are, I think, at stake in a poem.

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Only one thing remained reach...

Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.

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We are told that when H?lderl...

We are told that when H?lderlin went 'mad,' he constantly repeated, 'Nothing is happening to me, nothing is happening to me.'

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The heart hid still in the da...

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

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Reality is not simply there, ...

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

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Only truthful hands write tru...

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

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