Nelly Sachs Professions : Poet Born : December 10, 1891 Died : May 12, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by Nelly Sachs But silence is where victims dwell. Nelly Sachs silence-is silence victim World, they have taken the small children like butterflies and thrown them, beating their wings, into the fire-- Nelly Sachs butterfly taken children Instead of a homeland I hold the metamorphoses of the world. Nelly Sachs metamorphosis homeland world We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person. Nelly Sachs language knowing air When sleep enters the body like smoke Nelly Sachs stars journey sleep We mothers rock into the heart of the world the melody of peace. Nelly Sachs rocks mother heart To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality. Nelly Sachs tales fairy-tale reality 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 breathing sleep men Bewitched is half of everything. Nelly Sachs everything bewitched half Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors
