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"I gained temporary fame as a literary villain."

"There is nothing you can show on your face that can match the horror of this time. Do not even try. You will only hold yourself up to the scorn of those who have felt things deeply." --Leonard Cohen, Death of a Lady's Man (1978)

"Oppenheimer...disappeared the great physicist Lise Meitner, she who first comprehended that atoms could be and had been split."

"POWERS, DOMINIONS.

Behind them, in the bamboo:
barking leprosy, symphonic.

Vincent's posted
ear
has reached its destination."

--Hamburger's Celan

"Since Joris published his last major Celan translations, Americans have gotten a bitter taste of what it is to live in a totally politicized society, subject day in and day out to what Klemperer called 'the language of the victors' and Celan called 'murderous speech'."