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Top 25 Paul Celan Quotes (2025 Update)

Paul Celan Quote: “Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.”

1. “Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”

2. “Poetry is a sort of homecoming.”

Paul Celan Quote: “They’ve healed me to pieces.”

3. “They’ve healed me to pieces.”

Paul Celan Quote: “He speaks truly who speaks the shade.”

4. “He speaks truly who speaks the shade.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Only truthful hands write true poems. I cannot see any basic difference between a handshake and a poem.”

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

Paul Celan Quote: “Spring: trees flying up to their birds.”

6. “Spring: trees flying up to their birds.”

Paul Celan Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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

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

Paul Celan Quote: “I went with my very being toward language.”

9. “I went with my very being toward language.”

Paul Celan Quote: “The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.”

10. “The language with which I make my poems has nothing to do with one spoken here, or anywhere.”

Paul Celan Quote: “The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.”

11. “The heart hid still in the dark, hard as the Philosophers Stone.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Between always and never.”

12. “Between always and never.”

Paul Celan Quote: “How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you’re there, with a splinter of life.”

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

Paul Celan Quote: “Don’t sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.”

14. “Don’t sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Death is a master from Germany.”

15. “Death is a master from Germany.”

Paul Celan Quote: “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?”

16. “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?”

Paul Celan Quote: “Schwerer werden. Leichter sein.”

17. “Schwerer werden. Leichter sein.”

Paul Celan Quote: “What times are these when a conversation is almost a crime because it includes so much made explicit?”

18. “What times are these when a conversation is almost a crime because it includes so much made explicit?”

Paul Celan Quote: “Reality is not simply there, it does not simply exist: it must be sought out and won.”

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

Paul Celan Quote: “There was earth inside them, and they dug.”

20. “There was earth inside them, and they dug.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle.”

21. “Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.”

22. “Black milk of daybreak we drink it at sundown.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Tall poplars – human beings of this earth!”

23. “Tall poplars – human beings of this earth!”

Paul Celan Quote: “The poem is born dark; it comes, as the result of a radical individuation, into the world as a language fragment, thus, as far as language manages to be world, freighted with world.”

24. “The poem is born dark; it comes, as the result of a radical individuation, into the world as a language fragment, thus, as far as language manages to be world, freighted with world.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Wherever one went the world was blooming. And yet despair gave birth to poetry.”

25. “Wherever one went the world was blooming. And yet despair gave birth to poetry.”

Paul Celan Quote: “Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You, clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.”

26. “Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You, clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.”

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Paul Celan Quote: “Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. But it had to go through its own lack of answers, through terrifying silence, through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech.”

27. “Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language. Yes, language. In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss. But it had to go through its own lack of answers, through terrifying silence, through the thousand darknesses of murderous speech.”

Paul Celan Quote: “The world is gone, I have to carry you.”

28. “The world is gone, I have to carry you.”

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