| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 11114 |
| QUOTATION: | The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970), Austrian poet. Trans. 1986, Carcanet (1986). Collected Prose, “The Meridian,” (1960). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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