Nelly Sachs Quotes

• But silence is where victims dwell.

  Nelly Sachs

  Silence, Victim, Silence Is

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• Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.

  Nelly Sachs

  World, Metamorphosis, Homeland

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• We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.

  Nelly Sachs

  Mother, Heart, Rocks

  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--

  Nelly Sachs

  Children, Taken, Butterfly

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• We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

  Nelly Sachs

  Air, Knowing, Language

  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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• To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

  Nelly Sachs

  Reality, Fairy Tale, Tales

  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 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 Sachs

  Stars, Sleep, Journey

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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 Sachs

  Sleep, Men, Breathing

  Nelly Sachs (1967). “O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli”, New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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