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Nelly Sachs Quotes

But silence is where victims dwell.

But silence is where victims dwell.

Nelly Sachs
Silence, Victim, Silence Is

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

Nelly Sachs
World, Metamorphosis, Homeland

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”

World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire--

Nelly Sachs
Children, Taken, Butterfly

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”

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”

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

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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