Georg Trakl Quotes

#1. Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.

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#2. For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

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#3. Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.

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#4. Cold metal walks across my forehead,
spiders search for my heart.
It is a light that goes out in my mouth ...

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#5. I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.

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#6. Your body is a hyacinth,
Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers.
Our silence is a black cavern,
From which a soft animal steps at times
And slowly lowers heavy eyelids.
On your temples black dew drips,
The last gold of expired stars

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#7. The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.

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#8. When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.

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#9. A whore who with icy shudders gives birth to a small dead child.

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#10. Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.

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#11. The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.

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#12. Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

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#13. The guilt of newborns is immense.

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#14. The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.

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