Celan
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“My poems are my biography,” Celan once said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Celan called Jerusalem a “caesura” in his life; he needed it, he wrote, even before he found it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Dr. Langer agreed with writers, many of them Holocaust victims, including Primo Levi, Paul Celan and Tadeusz Borowski, who resisted easy explanations for their experience.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
Your attention to the indeterminate and obscured brings to mind another source, the poet Paul Celan, who wrote: “Speaks true who speaks shadows.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 2, 2022
The king of that Island of Celan hath the largest and finest ruby in existence.
From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry
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