Paul Celan Quotes


Read! Read all the time, the understanding will come by itself.


Citations

Felstiner, John. Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew. Yale University Press, 1995, p. 289.

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Paul Celan
Paul Celan
  • Born: November 23, 1920
  • Died: April 20, 1970
  • Nationality: Romanian, French
  • Profession: Writer

Paul Celan was a Romanian-born German-language poet and translator. He was born as Paul Antschel to a Jewish family in Cernăuți (German: Czernowitz), in the then Kingdom of Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), and adopted the pseudonym "Paul Celan". He became one of the major German-language poets of the post–World War II era.