Poetry is a sort of homecoming.

Paul Celan
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  1. Speak you too, speak as the last, say out your say. Speak- But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say this meaning too: Give it the shadow. Give it shadow enough, Give it as much As you know is spread round you from Midnight...

  2. With wine and being lost, withless and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far-- I rode Godnear, he sang, it wasour last ride overthe hurdled humans. They cowered whenthey heard usoverhead, theywrote, theylied our neighinginto one...

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

  4. Don't sign your namebetween worlds, surmountthe manifold of meanings, trust the tearstain, learn to live.

  5. How you die out in me:down to the lastworn-out knot of breathyou're there, with a splinter of life.

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