Else Lasker-Schuler Quotes & Sayings

Please lift your snowy skies
off my soul -
Your diamond dreams
slice through my veins — Else Lasker-Schuler

My breath hovers over the river of God - / Softly I set my foot / On the path to my long home. — Else Lasker-Schuler

At home I have a blue piano.
But I can't play a note.
It's been in the shadow of the cellar door
Ever since the world went rotten.
Four starry hands play harmonies,
The Woman in the Moon sang in her boat.
Now only rats dance to the clanks.
The keyboard is in bits.
I wept for what is blue. Is dead.
Sweet angels, I have eaten
Such bitter bread. Push open
The door of heaven. For me, for now-
Although I am still alive-
Although it is not allowed — Else Lasker-Schuler

Were my smile not submerged in my countenance, / I should suspend it over her grave. — Else Lasker-Schuler

A true poet does not say 'azure'; a true poet says 'blue. — Else Lasker-Schuler

My love for you is the sole image / Of God a human is allowed. — Else Lasker-Schuler