Writing meant living, was homeland in the exile for Paul Celan and Rose Ausländer. In their poems words found and invented depict realms of meaning and reflect moods – just like paintings try to convey and reveal an inner world.

Rose Ausländer was "affianced to death / enamored with life".  You also could say that her life had become poetry "a rose made out of words" - beguilingly beautiful and yet vulnerable / harming.