Nelly Sachs Quotes


Bewitched is half of everything.


Citations

Sachs, Nelly. O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli. Translated by Michael Hamburger et al., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.

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Nelly Sachs
Nelly Sachs
  • Born: December 10, 1891
  • Died: May 12, 1970
  • Nationality: German, Swedish
  • Profession: Poet

Nelly Sachs was a German-Swedish poet and playwright. Her experiences resulting from the rise of the Nazis in World War II Europe transformed her into a poignant spokesperson for the grief and yearnings of her fellow Jews. Her best-known play is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950); other works include the poems "Zeichen im Sand" (1962), "Verzauberung" (1970), and the collections of poetry In den Wohnungen des Todes (1947), Flucht und Verwandlung (1959), Fahrt ins Staublose (1961), and Suche nach Lebenden (1971). She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1966.