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Memory and poetry go together, absolutely. It is a matter of preserving and of remembering things.
Lisel Mueller
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Lisel Mueller
Age: 96 †
Born: 1924
Born: February 8
Died: 2020
Died: February 21
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Hamburg
Freie und Hansestadt
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How swiftly the strained honey of afternoon light flows into darkness and the closed bud shrugs off its special mystery in order to break into blossom: as if what exists, exists so that it can be lost and become precious
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When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
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When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature.
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What luxury, to be so happy that we can grieve over imaginary lives.
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I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the old values and culture. My grandparents had been reasonably well-off but they became quite poor, living in an attic apartment.
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