"German poetry is going in a very different direction from French poetry.... Its language has become more sober, more factual. It distrusts "beauty." It tries to be truthful."

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Source : Paul Celan, Rosemarie Waldrop (2003). “Collected Prose”, p.15, Psychology Press

Paul Celan

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