Austrian - Poet | February 3, 1887 - November 3, 1914
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
Georg Trakl
NatureGodSilenceSpringWoods
Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.
StarsYearHeadAutumnEach Year
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
StarsEvilBlackHardSignsAir
When we are thirsty, we drink the white waters of the pool, the sweetness of our mournful childhood.
ChildhoodPoolWhiteDrinkSweetness
The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.
HeartEyesRedBlueGoldNight
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
GodEyesPlaceGoldenOverHis
For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.
LonelyTavernWhoever
The guilt of newborns is immense.
GuiltImmense
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
ShadowsSilverDriftLivesEarlier
The near stillness recalls what is forgotten, extinct angels.
StillnessAngelsForgottenExtinct
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