.....Certainly the poem, the poem today shows-- and this I think has only indirectly to do with not-to-be-underestimated difficulties of word choice, with the sharper fall of syntax or heightened sense of ellipsis-- the poem unmistakably shows a strong bent toward falling silent.
.....It holds on-- after so many extreme formulations, allow me this one too-- the poem holds on at the edge of itself; so as to exist, it ceaselessly calls and hauls itself from its Now-no-more back into its Ever-yet.

.....But this Ever-yet could be only an act of speaking. Not simply language and probably not just verbal 'correspondence' either.
.....But actualized language, set free under the sign of a radical individuation, which at the same time stays mindful of the limits drawn by language, the possibilities opened by language.
.....This Ever-yet of poems can only be found in a poem by someone who does not forget that he speaks from the angle of inclination of his very being, his creatureliness.
.....Then a poem would be-- even more clearly than before-- the language-become-form of a single person and, following its inmost nature, presentness and presence.

--Paul Celan