When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower. - Georg Trakl
Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
- Georg Trakl
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs. - Georg Trakl
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls. - Georg Trakl
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart. - Georg Trakl
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
The guilt of newborns is immense. - Georg Trakl
The guilt of newborns is immense.
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. - Georg Trakl
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
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 shudders of transf… - Georg Trakl
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 shudders of transf…
Cold metal walks across my forehead, spiders search for my heart. It is a light that goes out in my mouth. - Georg Trakl
Cold metal walks across my forehead, spiders search for my heart. It is a light that goes out in my mouth.
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels. - Georg Trakl
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
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