Nelly Sachs was a German-born Jewish poet renowned for her profound poetic works. Born on December 10, 1891, in Leipzig, Germany, she passed away on May 12, 1970, in Sweden. Sachs' poetry was deeply influenced by Jewish culture and German Romanticism, expressing profound reflections on history, memory, and human suffering.
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Source: O the Chimneys: Selected Poems, Including the Verse Play, Eli
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“Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world.”
“To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.”
Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme
“We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.”
Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme
“We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace.”
Source: Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme