Quotes by Nelly Sachs

About Nelly Sachs:

Nelly Sachs is Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (1950); other works include the poems "Zeichen im Sand" (1962), "Verzauberung" (1970), and the collections of poetry In den Wohnungen des Todes (1947), Flucht und Verwandlung (1959), Fahrt ins Staublose (1961), and Suche nach Lebenden (1971).
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Bewitched is half of everything.

Nelly Sachs

To me, a fairy tale seems to have become reality.

Nelly Sachs

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

Nelly Sachs

We breathed the air of freedom without knowing the language or any person.

Nelly Sachs

Author Bio

  • NameNelly Sachs
  • DescriptionJewish German poet and playwright
  • AliasesLeonie Sachs
  • BornDecember 10, 1891
  • DiedMay 12, 1970
  • CountryGermany
  • ProfessionPoet; Writer; Playwright
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Honorary Citizen Of Berlin; Peace Prize Of The German Book Trade