Nelly Sachs quotes
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“When sleep enters the body like smoke and man journeys into the abyss like an extinguished star that is lighted elsewhere, then all quarrel ceases, overworked nag that has tossed the nightmare grip of its rider.”
-- Nelly SachsSource : Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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“Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.”
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“To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.”
-- Nelly SachsSource : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”
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“We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.”
-- Nelly SachsSource : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”
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“World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--”
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“We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.”
-- Nelly SachsSource : Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”
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“When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .”
-- Nelly SachsSource : Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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Source : A. R. Ammons (1998). “Glare”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company
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“A GOOD old-fashioned sex tape pretty much guarantees you a star on Hollywood Boulevard.”
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Source : Abraham Coles (1880). “The microcosm, and other poems”
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“Life is the journey between darkness of the womb and darkness of the grave.”
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