| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47795 |
| QUOTATION: | O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel’s body drifted as smoke
Through the air — |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Nelly Sachs (1891–1970), German Jewish poet and translator; relocated to Sweden. “O the chimneys,” lines 1-4, translated by Michael Hamburger, et al. (1967; first edition in German: 1946).
Sachs was cowinner of the 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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