Only one thing remained reachable, close and secure amid all losses: language.
Paul Celan
Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970), Austrian poet. Trans. 1986, Carcanet (1986). Collected Prose, “Bremen Speech,” (1958).
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