(If I were like you. If you were like me. Did we not stand under one trade wind? We are strangers.)
—Paul Celan, trans. by Michael Hamburger, excerpt of "Language Mesh [Sprachgitter]", in Sprachgitter
Source: "(Wär ich wie du. Wärst du wie ich. Standen wir nicht Unter einem Passat? Wir sind Fremde.)"














