What is 'frozen' or 'congealed' in the lines can be thawed again by the breath of the poet, guided by the reader's breath, and brought back into flow in their own unique way. Hilde Domin, Why Poetry Today. Hilde Domin has an infallible sense of how far language - the German language - can reach today. Joachim Günther. The poem is the rock block that does not unroll like treacherous marble. It reaches height. Hans-Georg Gadamer. What survives best is that which brings the past almost palpably close to descendants and generations. I believe that our great-grandchildren will find in Hilde Domin's works the message of a wonderfully creative and horrifically destructive era, in which one often needed to seek a hold and choose 'a rose as support.' Manès Sperber. If her poems are meant to activate something.