Paul Celan
Paul Celan
Paul Celanwas a Romanian-born German language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți, in the then Kingdom of Romania, and adopted the pseudonym "Paul Celan".. He became one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era...
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth23 November 1920
CountryRomania
pieces healed
They've healed me to pieces.
homecoming poetry-is
Poetry is a sort of homecoming.
names world manifold
Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
once-upon-a-time scent way
rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.
holocaust black bitterness
Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.
rowing
you're rowing by wordlight
invisible enough
who is invisible enough to see you
shade speak
He speaks truly who speaks the shade.
arrows secret target
Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle