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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.
— Paul Celan Glottal Stop
Tags: wine, poetry, nearness, language, god

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Each arrow you shoot off carries its own target into the decidedly secret tangle
— Paul Celan Glottal Stop
Tags: target, tangle, poetry, arrow
rush of pine scent (once upon a time), the unlicensed conviction there ought to be another way of saying this.
— Paul Celan Glottal Stop
Tags: saying, poetry, pine, conviction
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 Poems of Paul Celan
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Don't sign your name between worlds, surmount the manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.
— Paul Celan Glottal Stop
Tags: trust, tearstain, poetry, meaning, living
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
Tags: poetry
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