- character and action in "Psalm" by Paul Celan -

No one moulds us again out of earth and clay,

    no one conjures our dust.

    No one.

    Praised be your name, no one.

    For your sake

    we shall flower.

    Towards

    you.

    A nothing

    we were, are, shall

    remain, flowering:

    the nothing-, the no one's rose.

    With

    our pistil soul-bright,

    with our stamen heaven-ravaged,

    our corolla red

    with the crimson word which we sang

    over, O over

    the thorn.