This quote by Paul Celan speaks to the power of poetry to bring us back to our true selves. It suggests that poetry is a method of reconnecting with our innermost feelings and emotions, and of finding our way back to our true identity. It suggests that poetry is a type of self-discovery, a way of exploring our innermost ideas and feelings and of understanding ourselves better. It also suggests that poetry is a way of coming house to ourselves, of finding our way back to our true selves and of sensation at home in our own skin. In this way, poetry can be viewed as a type of healing, a method of discovering our way back to our true selves and of sensation at peace with who we are.
This quote is written / told by Paul Celan between November 23, 1920 and April 20, 1970. He/she was a famous Poet from Romania.
The author also have 3 other quotes.
"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that"
"Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry"
"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs"
"A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel"