Paul Celan Quote

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.


letter to relatives, 2 August 1948


There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.

There's nothing in the world for which a poet will give up writing, not even when he is a Jew and the language of his poems is German.