Memory Rose into Threshold Speech Quotes

“Foehnish You. Stillness
flew ahead of us, a second,
clear life.

I won, I lost, we believed
in somber wonders, the branch,
quickly written into the sky, carried us, grew
through the drifting white into the moon-orbit, a
morning leaped up into yesterday, we retrieved
the candlestick, scattered, I crashed
everything into no-one’s hand.”
― Paul Celan, Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry: A Bilingual Edition