Nelly Sachs Quote

Dancer
woman in childbirth
you alone
carry on the hidden navel-string
of your body
the identical god-given jewels
of death and birth.


O the Chimneys (1967)


Dancer woman in childbirth you alone carry on the hidden navel-string of your body the identical god-given jewels of death and birth.

Dancer woman in childbirth you alone carry on the hidden navel-string of your body the identical god-given jewels of death and birth.

Dancer woman in childbirth you alone carry on the hidden navel-string of your body the identical god-given jewels of death and birth.

Dancer woman in childbirth you alone carry on the hidden navel-string of your body the identical god-given jewels of death and birth.