Georg Trakl Quotes
- The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
- Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
- Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
- The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
- The guilt of newborns is immense.
- Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
- I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange…
- When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
- Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
- I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
- For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.