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Nelly Sachs


Born
in Schöneberg, Berlin, Germany
December 13, 1901

Died
May 12, 1970

Genre

Influences


The suffering of the Jewish people during World War II based work of German writer Nelly Sachs, who shared the Nobel Prize of 1966 for literature.

"For her outstanding lyrical and dramatic writing, which interprets Israel's destiny with touching strength," she shared the award with Shmuel Yosef Agnon.


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Glowing Enigmas

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The seeker, and other poems

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

“You remember the footprint

All that is forgotten you remember from eternity

You remember the footprint which filled with death
As the myrmidon approached.
You remember the child's trembling lips
As they had to learn their farewell to their mother.
You remember the mother's hands which scooped out a grave
For the child which had starved at her breast.
You remember the mindless words
That a bride spoke into the air to her dead bridegroom.”
Nelly Sachs, Collected Poems I: (1944-1949)

“Always
there where children die
stone and star
and so many dreams
become homeless.”
Nelly Sachs, Collected Poems I: (1944-1949)

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