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Nelly Sachs: Here and there...

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Here and there the lantern of compassion
can be shown to the fish,
where the fishhook is swallowed
or suffocation practiced.

Source: Here and There the Lantern of Compassion, O the Chimneys, 1967.
-- Nelly Sachs, (Dec 10 1891-1970), German poet, dramatist; She was transformed by the Nazi experience from dilettante into poignant spokesman for the grief of fellow Jews; won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1966.

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