Quotes by Georg Trakl

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