Georg Trakl quotes
Georg Trakl was an Austrian poet known for his deeply melancholic and expressionistic style. His vivid and haunting imagery had a significant influence on 20th-century European poetry. He struggled with mental health issues and addiction throughout his life. Here are 15 of his quotes:
The murderer smiles palely in wine,
Death's horror grips the sick.
Excoriated and naked, the nun prays
Before the Savior's agony on the cross.
The mother sings quietly in sleep.
Peacefully the child looks into the night
With eyes that are completely truthful.
In the whorehouse laughter rings.
By candlelight down in the cellar hole
The dead one paints with white hand
A grinning silence on the wall.
The sleeper whispers still.
Georg Trakl
In the evening you hear the scream of bats,
Two black horses jump in the meadow,
The red maple rustles.
To the traveller the small inn appears by the wayside.
Wonderful the taste of young wine and nuts,
Wonderful: stumbling drunk into darkening wood.
Through black branches painful bells sound,
On the face dew drips.
Georg Trakl
Georg Trakl
Occupation: Austrian Poet
Born: February 3, 1887
Died: November 3, 1914
Quotes count: 15
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