


The Recycling of an old tree and the fame of nature
Fragment of the Poem Psalm by Paul Celan
“A Nothing
we were, are now, and ever
shall be, blooming:
the Nothing-, the
No-One’s-Rose”.
Paul Celan, “Psalm” from Selected Poems and Prose, translated by John Felstiner. Copyright © 2001 by John Felstiner.
Source: Selected Poems and Prose, translated by John Felstiner (W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2001)